LEMONS

When life gives you lemons – make pie!  Yummy lemon meringue pie, it’s one of my favourite ways of getting rid of surplus egg whites and lemons.

2019 is going to be a year of ‘lemons’ but not according to those subscribing to the pre-Brexit Hamster List phenomena that’s currently sweeping the internet.  Since most lemons come from abroad then after Brexit these could be harder to find than El Dorado.  Better to start stockpiling now or face a lemon meringue pie drought later on.

Make pie not war

Only 3 weeks into the year and I already feel the need for pie, lots and lots of it.  Could this sudden urge to throw myself face down in a bowl full of caster sugar be due to our new office computer system going live last week?  Or is it that general wintry despondency that sets in after Christmas?  I’ve often wondered why technical implementation is referred to as ‘go live’ when shortly afterwards users mostly lose the will to live as they realise their new bit of kit is about as effective as a non-perforated teabag.

Although I’m a January baby, it’s got to be the longest, most boring and exasperating month of the year.  Thirty one days of self-flagellation to atone for a lifetime of over-indulgence and inactivity.  Basically the same farce year on year.  Even our resident squirrel’s doing Dry January. 

Beer anyone?

I vote that we should all do the opposite of what everyone else is doing with their January.  Let’s spend the month drinking like fishes, feasting like gluttons whilst dancing naked round a large polluting bonfire of burning spandex sportswear.  Now that’s the way to really kick off a new year!

January?  I think I'll just give it a miss