Another in my series of doodle postcards.Chitting is what we do to seed potatoes at this time of year i e stand them upright in egg boxes to sprout , a practise said to strengthen and speed their growth once planted. You are encouraged to rub off some of the less confident looking sprouts. I am oddly reluctant to do this, for the same reason that I do not like thinning out seedlings.It is foolish and illogical of me, but it still seems a waste of resources. Rubbish of course. It would be as foolish to say the same of consumable clouds of spawning fish and crustaceans in tropical oceans. And a few sprouts are supposed to produce more potatoes than the full complement.
The pub called The Black Pig the other day could not manage to produce a Scotch egg with the egg hard boiled rather than runny. Runny is how they used to serve them until a fashion for soft Scotch eggs took hold. I am reminded of this today as I note that lunch is served from 12 till 9. Lunch, a mark of the times, like the Scotch egg has become a flexible feast if not a runny one.
