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No food, no history and lots of (mostly useless) information

by Gillian Polack

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Today is more announcements. It was going to be invalid cookery, but I’m still too sick to look up recipes. My eyes just don’t seem to want to work without vast effort*.

On the technical front, we have news from 451 Press. All that amazing new equipment is being installed during the next week or so. This may mean that Food History will have some downtime for as long as the installation lasts**. Just think of it as the natural outcome of me being grumpy (which it isn’t, but it makes a good line) and come back later.

When everything’s fully back to normal, I have postcards to give away. Also maybe a book. And I promise to stop whingeing.

*To tell the truth, I’m less sick than yesterday, but a sinus headache has caught up with me and is telling me in no uncertain terms that books are not part of my day. As a result I’m complaining about everything and everyone to anyone who’s not quick enough to run and hide. How can I not read!! (Also, please forgive any typos till my eyesight is back to normal – which will be when the headache has sorted itself out.) Anyway, I’m totally not nice to be round today, so that your lucky stars I can’t check out recipes, because there’s some really ugly cooking for invalids out there and I bet I would have given you those recipes because they reflect how I feel.

** Let me make it clear I’m talking about processes, not art displays.

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One Response to “No food, no history and lots of (mostly useless) information”

  1. Llyn Says:

    Get better soon. Also, Mabel laid the table arrived today. I only ordered it yeserday. It’s a fun read. I’ll save for when you are better.

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