" village poet

Thursday, April 06, 2006





So now we move in to a DE-TOXin period..though I doubt it. I should think there will be much string pulling behind the arras.
I don't think many people have really clocked that we had an election with a one party list and some 20 million people managed to get out of bed to vote NO ie anyone but the one party candidate. Can't see that happening in many 'de-mockeracies'.
Anyway it is too hot to think really. We are watching the guys starting to build the house, and are doing the 'sala' or garden room-sitting -it is just under 40 degrees in the shade so well into the 100s in the open sun-welding the roof trusses at 13.00!!
What is one to eat when its like this? Cannot buy a decent salad-no fish-no olives. I made a startlingly good gazpacho, but would not want to eat it every day. Thai food seems cloying rather than cooling or invigorating. Have tried vindaloos and biryanis, but again not entirey satis. No yogurt. Locals just munching their way through endless bowls of incredibly tedious noodles.