Good intentions and bad inventions

A third of the first month of the year has gone. We are 10 months away from being 3 weeks away from Advent. (Leave me alone – I am missing Christmas and wishing we could get it back again sooner!).

I tried again to have a day of healthy eating, then at 6.15pm I realised that the honey roast peanuts we had left over from Christmas have a ‘Use By’ date ending Jan 2022. They were completely unopened and haven’t been in direct sunlight and they’re still in date for 2 more weeks, but somehow that gave me the excuse I needed to open them and start enjoying them. I’ve been picking away at them all evening, as if they MUST be finished by midnight tonight or will spoil and go to waste. Even as I’m typing this, and berating myself for my weakness and my gluttony, I am still eating them from a bowl beside my computer. I am terrible.

I have a spider plant in my office at work and it is looking a little unwell. I think it has outgrown the pot. I think this is a scam run by garden centres to keep you going back constantly – “Oh, we’ll sell you a plant that will live for years; but you’ll have to pop back and see us for a bigger pot every few months as it will keep growing and outgrow the one we’ve given you. And by the way, each pot will cost you more than the plant did when you originally purchased it”. (cue evil laugh) Why hasn’t someone invented a plant pot that is able to naturally expand itself as the plant within it grows into adulthood? How has this not been done yet? We’ve walked on the moon, and it is possible to add a snarky comment to a YouTube video within seconds of it being uploaded without even bothering to take the time to watch it, how do we not have self-expanding plant pots? If I was an inventor, I’d be onto this like Jimmy Saville onto a children’s ward.
God that’s a terribly out-of-date reference, and in terribly bad taste. Forgive me… But GET INVENTING and give me credit for the idea when you sell it for a fortune.

RC 10-1-22