Yes, and fast. I thought of that title about noon today; and here it is after 6pm…
Sunomono
I seem to have done nothing, but I have. I strung up my guava tree to prevent it falling over, I had class for two hours in the morning, I made a tray of fried mussels and sunomono and took to the bar as a pseudo lunch to share with the locals about 2pm, I have successfully napped twice and had a short sit in the park doing nothing; between all of which I have posted on four… now six blogs.
So for a Saturday it has been quite successful.
Sunomono is thinly sliced Japanese cucumbers in rice vinegar, usually with sesame seeds and a sprinkling of some fishy type thing on top. I didn’t bother with the niceties like salting and washing, nor even the rice vinegar; I just washed the vege, sliced it and poured over ordinary white vinegar and as I didn’t have sesame seeds it got that good old standby treatment, chopped parsley.
I read an article on extinction this week that made me think.
We are busy trying to save species from becoming extinct. But nature has been extincting species for millions of years.
Just imagine… Walking down to the corner shop for a loaf of bread on a quiet sunny Sunday humming to yourself and you are confronted by a giant snarling Tyrannosaurus Rex. OMG, shades of Jurassic Park!
Sort of put you off your lunch, wouldn’t it?
Isn’t it just as well that Mother Nature in her wisdom made them extinct?
While it’s nice that we have pretty species, like tigers and elephants and rhinos, and I realise their extinction is largely being driven by man, are we perhaps not going against the grain.
Look at whales…
Are we actually doing a disservice to them?
There’s a whole lot to think about there.
Later.
Life is but a Labyrinth 
