General Chat

I have just remembered the meeting we went to last year which is the reason we have not volunteered to cook the village lunch this year.

My OH is quite well qualified as a chef and has been a tutor for quite a long time, including teaching at the local college. He has some idea about food hygiene.

The meeting was called by the woman who organizes and instigated the village lunches so that everybody would be familiar with what was necessary and not really to really to instruct anybody in anything they didn't know.

She sat in the window of the pub at the ed of the table and to her left sat the woman who had taken it upon herself to be chief instructor. What she didn't know wasn't worth knowing, she was, indeed, the oracle, because she had a food hygiene certificate, the one day course that OH has taught, on and off, for years.

Also there was the doyen of the WI, who had to let us know she takes the Nisbett's (catering supplies) catalogue regularly and let us know how particular she is. Her role model was a woman who sometimes cooks a meal in the church hall and whose methods OH thinks might be illegal if used in a restaurant but she must be right because she is a doctor. Please don't ask OH to diagnose anything you might be suffering from by that token!

Having watched the pantomime unfold, we felt it might not be a bad idea to back away quietly.

Come to think of it, I have never seen the oracle cooking a village lunch, she won't see me anymore either!

Years ago, I kept bees, only one hive, reluctantly, inherited from my dad. I don't even like honey! Anyway, at a family funeral was a relative who was a past president of the BBKA, who had multiple hives. When I told him that I had one he asked "Only one?", to which my brother, quicker witted than me replied "Yes but he knows each bee by name". The relative was a lovely chap, by the way.