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fe affirming female friendship tales to tell then you re very welcome to this was scary to put out there i hope it finds the audience it was intended for julie posted by julie kirk at 16 19 8 comments labels periods honest blogging life documenting story telling london email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 10 august 2016 is life too short to eat a surprise trout a fishy meditation on adult responsibilities are you sure this is cod i asked already doubtful of its true nature it was easter weekend and we d eaten all the lamb and chocolate we could and should feasibly digest so we made the mature decision to have something lighter for tea which is how a so called cod of mysterious origins came to be defrosting by the sink its origins were open to debate as neither james nor i had bought it james had brought it home but he couldn t even remember if it was something someone had caught themselves then passed on to or off on him or if it was one of the random fish he occasionally returns home with after visiting his parents although quite what it is about him that makes any number of people feel they need to offer him donations of fish i m not too sure perhaps he was a performing seal in a past life either way this creature had been wrapped in a carrier bag and buried in the bottom of our freezer for months during which it had developed a rigor mortis curl as if one day while minding its own business it had been frozen on the spot while curving its dappled body around an eddy but was it a cod i d hoped so it s white flesh offering a cleansing freshness after all that rich easter fayre and yet as it finally began to soften after many hours defrosting on the draining board i began to have my doubts it can t be cod i said prodding it with the back of a spoon not wanting to transfer the metallic penny like tang of fish skin on to my own it can t be cod because look its flesh is pink it must be salmon which was fine salmon s fine more than fine everything s fine so it s not cod it s salmon swings and roundabouts i like them both and yet once the not cod had warmed up enough to become pliant to the blade allowing james to decapitate it ready for roasting i then began to lose faith in its salmonliness is it even salmon though i asked i don t know if it is you know cut a bit off microwave it and taste it which is when it turned out that the cod that was a salmon wasn t even a salmon it was a trout and frankly neither of us much like trout so now what as an adult what is the right thing to do in this situation what would you do do you eat it because waste not want not or do you abandon it because yolo that disappointing trout confirming mouthful had suddenly presented a raw oozing fishy conundrum is life too short to eat a trout you weren t expecting we ve all asked that at some point in our lives haven t we haven t we as an adult it s a tricky decision but when you re younger everything is a bit more cut and dried for a start you rarely have to decapitate your own food in fact it s positively discouraged as a child when you re faced with a decision over whether or not you re going to have to eat something you really don t fancy your thinking isn t so woolly back then the situation would tend to resolve itself in one of two ways unwanted trout handling method 1 refuse point blank to eat it with a dietrich esque turn of the head and a dictatorially defiant confidence you d dig in your heels while writhing and wriggling to avoid the offending plate fork parental control you d boldly declare i m not eating that which is a feat in itself through watertight sealed lips or else unwanted trout handling method 2 you d have to eat it no arguments you d begrudgingly eat it because your parents were the kind of people who d simply insist that you did there are children in africa who d be grateful for that end of story and while you may have ended up hating the pair of them more than the food you were refusing to eat you d at least get a story for your memoir out of it either way back then the ultimate responsibility for that food that decision was above your pay grade if you had followed your parents instructions and ate it it was gone problem solved and if you didn t then it got left on a plate where it became their problem let s face it feeling guilty about the waste they probably ate it themselves on the way back to the kitchen and then felt like a human dustbin for the rest of the day but at least they got a story for their memoir out if it so what do i take from all this adult life has a way of defrosting unwanted fish on your draining board leaving you to deal with it for yourself and once a surprise fish is your problem it s always your problem because what can you do if you don t eat it if you decide that you know what i m just not forcing that down you re still left with a body to dispose of of course you could just throw it in the bin done with out of sight problem solved but who s going to be the one reeling from the smell of rotten fish broadcasting from the wheelie bin at 7 30am on a cold wet tuesday morning yep you are or maybe you could give it away but who do you know that would really welcome you handing off your problem fish on to them unlike some other problems a friend can help out with a surprise fish shared is not really a surprise fish halved or you could simply ignore it yeah try that see how it goes tip you might get away with that better in january than july turn your back on it by all means push it to the back of the fridge for a week if it gives you momentary respite but as much as you d like to you are not going to be able to ignore it for long the more you ignore it the more it will rot its scent the stench of indecision a pungent reminder that is still exists because in adult life you do end up having to swallow your fair share of surprise fish handling getting rid of the unexpected trout in whatever form that might take in your life is now your responsibility that trout isn t really a trout except when it isn t a cod or a salmon because in that case it most definitely and disappointingly is a trout that trout is now all the things life throws at you people die and you have to deal with it things break ornaments washing machines relationships hearts and you have to deal with it tyres burst shelves fall hopes fade and you have to deal with it that decision you ve been putting off for years suddenly becomes unavoidable and you have to deal with it that confession that suppressed dream that unspoken disappointment that overdue credit card payment that overdue conversation that lump life won t let you go on ignoring them forever they re all going to stink out your fridge eventually and yet and yet maybe i m looking at this from the wrong angle maybe i ve overlooked the fact there are other things in life that you probably can get away with ignoring or refusing or turning away from and maybe we don t need to see everything through to the end we ve heard the phrase life s too short to stuff a mushroom but what about to eat an unwanted trout what about to touch up your roots every 6 weeks or keep up with the fashion for whatever shaped eyebrows are on trend this month isn t life too short to turn down cake at a party or to miss capturing the moment in a photo because you were embarrassed to whip out your camera and it s definitely too short to bother pulling out the fridge to clean behind it or to always try to win an argument or to turn down the opportunity of a day trip just because it s cold and rainy apart from anything else here in the uk if we always did that we d hardly ever leave the house maybe there are occasions when we can just paddle out and drop our dead fish out to sea without repercussions maybe we can should decide to stop wasting time eating a fish we don t like watching a film we can t stand or wading through another 467 pages of a book we should have just cut loose at page 10 there s definitely something to be said for letting certain parts of life just swim away from us and i guess one more responsibility of being an adult is in deciding what s right for us working out which trout we can put an early end to and those which we really need to see through to the fishy end ultimately i wonder if it s all a balancing act that throughout life we re all simply fluctuating between supporting team just eat the damn fish and team life s too short but as for the cod that wasn t a salmon but was a trout reader i ate it whipped out merely momentarily from beneath its smothering blanket of camouflaging parsley sauce but i ate it through gritted teeth but i ate it and quickly one of the best ways to deal with any life s unwanted and unwarranted difficulties in this instance to misquote winston churchill it was a case of when you re going through surprise trout keep going julie x so tell me have you lately found yourself in team just eat the damn fish or team life s too short have you had to face up to something and swallow it down or have you cut something loose without regret a book a tv show a diet a pattern of thinking feel free to share your thoughts and experiences but without having to include all the personal details if you liked these philosophical meanderings you might also like this great quote about making a dignified exit this list of lessons i learned about anxiety and social situations and bookbinding posted by julie kirk at 12 16 7 comments labels creative non fiction life documenting adult life email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 5 august 2016 overheard let s hope the olympians are better at geography it s been years since i shared an overheard here although if you follow me on twitter you ll be all up to date with what my ears have been eavesdropping on lately it hasn t been quite as long ago as the last olympics but it s not far off so let me rectify that right now with well i was going to say with something suitably brazillian but i know you you d get the wrong idea deliberately with something suitably topical then overheard when 1 may 2013 overheard where boots the chemist north east england two sales assistants were chatting about a third and this is how their global themed conversation went sales assistant 1 she thought brazil was in spain after which sales assistant 2 paused before replying well isn t it let s hope team gb and the rest of the olympians i suppose it s only sporting have had the foresight to flip through an atlas by now find collections of original vintage maps pictured in my etsy shop which is stocked full of all kinds of vintage materials to inspire brand new creativity posted by julie kirk at 07 00 4 comments labels overheard olympics brazil email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 4 august 2016 my month in numbers 2016 july hello hello remember back in june where it appeared that i could only buy a new car if it pandered to my fondness for black and white clothing well things developed even further during july and now i ll only visit historical buildings if they rock the monochrome look too this is actually gainsborough old hall in lincolnshire which was built in 1460 and while yes it was obligingly black and white and stripey we actually visited because well while we were on our annual city break in lincoln i looked up things to do in lincoln and this was one of them but 1460 550 years old and still opening its doors to visitors that s pretty good going isn t it in fact the day we visited they also had a local business breakfast conference running we wandered into their refreshment area and were tempted to steal their muffins and bacon sandwiches so it s by no means a dusty old wreck inside in fact it s all laid out how it would have been used originally here s the kitchen where we learned about how smoke was drawn up and out of the roof and also what a medieval fridge looked like and we knew all this because we embraced the full touristy thing and listened to the guided tour on headphones here we are wearing them while up on the roof btw we learned form the audio guide that when henry viii dropped by for a visit in 1541 he was unable to climb the steps to the roof due to his chronic leg ulcers so there you go never stop learning kids never stop learning can you just make out from over my shoulder no not the ghost of a disgruntled henry viii but the roofs of regular townhouses because the strangest part about gainsborough old hall is how unlike most if not all the other stately homes i ve ever seen this is not seated in any grounds no grand gardens surrounding it no long drive to the front door this is slap bang in the middle of a small town centre opposite a library across the road from regular houses imagine opening up your curtains to such history every morning oh and while we re on the subject of historic old buildings we finally got to re visit the jew s house in lincoln which dates back to the 12th century it s an interesting name isn t it the jew s house and the explanation is as mundane as you might expect it belonged to a jewish owner as there was a jewish quarter in medieval lincoln we were pleased to re visit it because while it s been continually inhabited for over 800 years it s now a beautiful restaurant of which we had fond memories from years ago and while we ve visited lincoln almost each year since the dates of our summer holidays have always seemed to coincide with theirs so they are usually closed when we re there but not this time so we booked up asap and as expected enjoyed a really good meal there surrounded by such atmospheric walls btw the name can take some clarification when you re not using it in face to face communication like when you re sending someone the text message we re going to see if we can get into the jew s house for tea the restaurant that is not just the house of an individual jew to which came the reply enjoy your tea it s good to know you don t just choose people of random faiths and get them to cook for you although for the record while we really don t make a habit force religious people to cook for us someone who james had been working with in july did share with him several boxes from their eid feast and he and i ate it for tea so mmmm we re not entirely off the hook we stayed in lincoln for 5 nights 6 days and i took a mix and match monochrome wardrobe and similarly to how in june someone complimented me on the skirt i m wearing in the centre there i wore the skirt on the right to a restaurant where the waitress offered me the delightful greeting of i love your skirt it s the best thing i ve seen all day who doesn t want to hear that btw it s an old one from topshop while in lincoln we visited several thousand poppies in the grounds of lincoln castle this was the poppies wave installation which once formed part of the the vast display of 888 246 poppies that were featured in the blood swept lands 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