Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!

Big cars, big hands, big dreams, big hair, big people and big mistakes. Ah yes, we’ve all crossed paths with some of these big things once, twice or thrice in our lifetimes. But what do you do when faced with the enormous or the oversized? Do you gawk? Do you recoil and shrink into a tinier state of mind or do you take a giant leap into the towering mass of whatever and embrace the difference? I mean, size. Its all relative isn’t it?

mr.K and yours truly have been pondering about “size” ever since he brought home the largest aubergine I have ever seen in my life last week and plonked it on the kitchen bench with a flourish of pride as if he was some kind of big game hunter presenting a trophy vegetable.

“What are we going to do with that … that … thing?” I exclaimed.

“Well Shirl, we could cook it. We could put a funny hat on it and lay it in the hammock.

We could spend this evening playing Mr. Potato Head games with it. Whatever takes your fancy, my dear!”

“But its so … so … large mr.K! I doubt that it will even fit into the crisper!”

Three days have passed and it is still on the bench. I’m not sure whether he expects me to feed it or what. I’ll tell you this though, if it hasn’t disappeared tomorrow I’m going to demand that it starts to pay rent!

*be smooched*

laShirl and mr. Kenneth

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