Well it’s a few days now since the great fast and I’m back once again to my Shrek like proportions!
I had a wonderful sense of elation after the fast. I followed the suggested recipes carefully and totally unprepared for how delicious everything tasted. It was like tasting different foods for the first time. Fruit such as strawberries and blueberries were particularly yummy.
My undoing came in the form of my dad’s 80th birthday meal: the three course meal followed by the birthday cake!
Watching the trailers for the Shrek film today I realise that all I would have to do is change my colour a little and I’d be the perfect stand in. I even have the teeth!
Years ago one Christmas I was happy singing carols with the family when my myopic grandmother moved in very close until she was just inches from my face. I thought that perhaps with her deafness she just wanted to hear my angelic voice all the more, so I upped my crescendo singing of ding dong merrily on high until I was almost singing in stereo.
At the end of the song I waited for granny’s affirmation.
She stared at me hard, and then she said loudly,
’Are those your own teeth!’
Ten years old and mortified I nodded.
So I guess I am handicapped a little. With teeth on the scale as big as mine ‘a bite to eat’ has a completely different meaning.
And after the great fast I was on a par with Jaws!
Yum!
