Titanarum

What grows on the human tongue and is yellow, green and slimy and tastes abominably? Throat infection bacteria. And what’s more, whatever you try to feed yourself ends up tasting of them. Not fair. Am fed up. After ten days of feverish inactivity my bones are achy and my muscles weak. On the bright side is a noticeable weight loss. But with the bacteria finally slain by penicillin I feel ravenous. Now is the time for chocolate spread and peanut butter sandwiches, for creamed soups and gold topped milky coffees, for cheese fondues (maybe not, did you hear about the one that exploded?) and gateaux made of ganache. My dreams have been filled with foods my throat and stomach refused to let past my lips while I’ve had to make do with watery porridge and dry toast and the occasional mashed up banana. At times I’ve been too feeble to change the channels on the telly ending up with head to tail repeats of cookery programmes. Woe is indeed me. And thanks for sharing my pain. But back to gardening. Just like we have weeds and proper plants the body grows good and harmful bacteria. Now I’ve just had a visit from the bad bacteria and they liked my body so much and felt so at home they began mating. That is exactly what weeds do. They procreate and gradually take over. But fortunately modern science has a weapon: antibiotics. Unfortunately, the garden equivalent, herbicide, is no good. Well, it is. But we have to not use them because they hurt the planet. I would have liked to elaborate but being in recovery my energy has run out.