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I have been to the farmers' market and obtained fancy cheese and ... Gooseberries. I've often read that something is as green as a gooseberry but I've never seen them! Guess what - they're green. They look like little stripey fat tomatillo-watermelons, smaller than cherries but larger than blueberries. There's an eerie eyeball quality to them that's a little disturbing. I haven't eaten one yet.

off to a lovely-sounding brunch with people I don't know, and Moomin, and chula and i think maybe her gf will probably be there. I was thinking how I love a party full of people i don't know especially if they all know each other and what hell it would be to other people like squid or jo. F. or maybe L. was warning me last night that "P0tlatch can be very cliquish" (science fiction convention that I keep wanting to go to but haven't yet made it to) "But you probably know enough people that you'll be all right. Maybe." I found this funny. Cliques and groups of people have never fazed me yet. I guess it could happen... The more cliquish and tribal they are, the more I get to feel like a space traveller or an anthropologist observer. And if they're welcoming then I feel like a welcomed space traveller. but either way i love groups of people who have developed their own norms of behaviour and have a history. what could be nicer and more like reading an interesting novel? I mean, other than getting to hear the secret dirty history of someone I've never met, like when Iris sends me those long emails about her wild past.

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[Iris]

Erm.Anyway ... I had no idea you didn't have gooseberries.My children's favourite pudding is 'Gooseberry Fool' when you stew the gooseberries with sugar and then (in grandma world) sieve them - or don't bother just mash - and mix them with large amounts of whipped double cream and maybe a stiffly whipped egg white.We add a bunch of elder flowers which are out at the same time but elder flower syrup is exactly the same.Or a teeny touch of orange.Slightly sugared gooseberry sauce is really nice with oily fish like mackerel too ... I could obviously talk about this for hours, sadly.