What have I agreed to?

I’ve just volunteered to help out a friend by possibly being a case study for some PR thing she’s doing. Apparently they’re looking for people who grow their own veg, keep chickens or brew their own alcohol, or who have cut their own hair to save cash.  They added ‘preferably badly’ to this last, which makes me somewhat suspicious that it’s an exercise designed to ridicule dirty hippies, but I’d get £100 in vouchers out of it. I suspect I can’t redeem these against my MA, but they will allow me to put money that would have gone on other things towards that instead. The things I do for other people.

Incidentally, Scientist Fiancé’s mother has said that she prefers my chutney to a certain leading brand of pickle which shall remain nameless. So that’s Hamster – 1, Food Industry -0. Muahahaha.

A mini rant about pizza

You what? ‘Oh no, it’s the credit crunch, we can’t afford decent food so we’ll have to eat at Dominos!’ ???

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/feb/17/fast-food-recession-cooking

Dear lord, even if I couldn’t cook I wouldn’t conside Dominos a bargain! At university we got pizza from there about once, until we realised it was twice the price of any other takeaway pizza and defected to Kebabland or somewhere. And, to be fair, there probably are people who could buy a pizza for £3 in a supermarket and wouldn’t know how to cook it in the oven, but even so… I’m not even certain a pizza from Dominos is cheaper than eating out at ASK or Zizzi’s or somewhere. (And they do takeaway for £5 a pizza.)

*shakes head sadly*

Many people nowadays like…

I spent a lot of time chopping oranges. (A lot of time.)

They became marmalade.