Almonds

For a long time, I have dropped almonds in my tea, and fished them out to eat them, the outer skin falls away, and they are warm.

I used to eat potatoes whole, and raw. Like eating an apple. With a little salt.

It occurred to me yesterday that, although I hoped for my mother's sake that he would die first, and she would have a few years of peace, if he survived her - I could tell my father off. Really tell him what I thought of him, use language to shock even him. Now, all that is going through my mind is my own reasons for detachment from her. So much I had to edit, couch, not say at all. And she often said, the less said the better. In this case, I think she is right, and I will live by her rule.

Watching Planet Word, Uses and Abuses, Stephen Fry listening to Brian Blessed swear a blue streak, both of us rolling with laughter. "Oh, shit I've said fuck, oh fuck I've said shit." I really don't swear much these days, but I love having the option, under my control.