But what do I do when I'm not writing? Well, at three books a year, I mostly eat, sleep and brush my teeth when not writing. But also - anytime I can I get onto a beach:
And there I don't kayak, snorkel, jet-ski or surf. Nope, I sit, read, listen to the waves and - when it's warm enough - swim.
What else? I've never knowingly passed a sign for a yard sale (or estate sale, or charity shop, or antiques mall or dumpster) and I've got the maximilist decor to prove it:
On a daily basis, I love cooking and baking (sometimes one-handed because I'm also reading):
And gardening.
One-handed gardening (because I'm reading) can lead to patchy courgette management that results in a lot more cooking. I've got a couple of great courgette-glut recipes ( courgette = zucchini, by the way), if anyone else has been doing distracted gardening and now has courgettes you could hollow out and live in.
Sometimes instead of gardening while reading, the dumpster-diving and cooking get combined. When the truck drivers fill the hoppers too full and/or take the tight rising corner on the road to the Campbell's plant too fast . . . roadkill tomatoes! I was brought up berry-picking in hedgerows (flies, thorns, maggots) and coming home with a car full of ripe, red Roma toms for free still tickles me.
7 comments:
Catriona, do you do one-handed driving too, cause the other hand is holding a book :-) ? I was sure I saw you doing that at Nascar.
Courgettes is one thing I grow well, but who doesn't? Next time I decide to grow veg I will ask for your favourite recipes :) Those grilled ones look nice!
Courgette cake! Courgette soup! Courgette on a stick! LOVE 'em!! Enjoy one-handed everything :-)
This post can double as a tribute to Scottish thrift.
Catriona, you always make me laugh. Thank you.
With three books a year, I'm surprised you even have time to breath let alone figure out what to do with all the zucchini.
Your baking skills are on display at your local book launches, but the zucchini is special. I got so tired of trying to unload them to family and neighbors I stopped growing them. Right now, I have at least 100 green tomatoes on my wildly out of control plants so I may resort to dropping some on the street to see if anyone picks up the roadkill. I remember seeing those big trucks near Davis when I went up there - massive.
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