had my [highly favourable] annual review over lunch in the jerwood space cafe which is just round the corner from the office. ross kemp and ewan mcgregor were there [though not together]. i always thought of the jerwood as a gallery, but i see it's got rehearsal spaces.
i find myself explaining mushy peas as a result of this photograph
i have to record this
i didn't see or think about mushy peas for many years [even in northern chip shops you were more likely to get frozen peas in the 80s and 90s]. and now they're resurrected, courtesy of trendy pie shops and the fashion for traditional english food. the restaurant at tate modern serves fish, chips and mushy peas - we took our russian clients there and persuaded them to have it - it's strange having to explain how to eat something you've grown up with. how to eat fish in batter without eating the skin or any bones, for instance [don't just cut slices like a sausage!].
when i was small we lived next door to a chip shop in cleethorpes. i remember sometimes getting threepenceworth of chips [old money not decimal] for supper, as a treat. makes me sound victorian ;)
innocent drinks are running a tree-planting promotion on their large cartons - each carton has a unique code, go to their website and enter the code, and a tree is planted in a carbon-offsetting scheme by carbon clear. farmers are paid for tree survival and growth over ten years, rather than just seedlings planted, to give incentives for long-term benefits.
i'm suspicious of carbon-offsetting projects [lowering consumption is the only sure way] but this one came free with the drink, so why not.
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