A cauliflower was my undoing

[Alberta56]

I had my hair done on Wednesday- hooray😊- and afterwards wandered down to Braintree market where I saw the most delicious cauliflowers on sale- football sized and all fresh and white. 😋😋😋I haven't had a decent cauliflower since lockdown started. I asked myself 'Can I lug that back to the car?' Decided yes- I'm so much fitter now. Ha, ha. It's slightly uphill out of the market, so it wasn't long before I was puffing and blowing. Of course I had parked on the first floor, so I had a real job to haul myself up the stairs. It was like being back in the bad old days before I got a diagnosis. By the time I got home I was shattered -and the next day. Moral1: I'm not as fit as I'd like to think. Moral 2: Cauliflowers are VERY DANGEROUS.🤣🙃🤪

[leo60]

I'd have been tempted too! Love a cauli cheese with pasta, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes in it, and the delivery ones have not been that great recently :(Hope you're ok today? xx Enjoy it xx

[Alberta56 in reply to leo60]

I'm fine and so is the cauliflower which sits in the larder awaiting its fate.🧀🧀🧀

[leo60 in reply to Alberta56]

Oh good 👍 have a lovely weekend xx

[MoyB in reply to Alberta56]

Oh dear! I just got this vivid image flash before me of you, the cauliflower and a samurai sword! Poor cauliflower -' Was wrong place, wrong time for him, officer!'

Hope I haven't put you off eating it now. Enjoy it! You worked hard enough to get it and, yes, I know what you mean about not being able to get a decent one for a long time. I'm not a huge fan of Cauli but now I really want one - as long as it's like yours (and someone else carries it home for me.)

xx Moy

[Alberta56 in reply to MoyB]

The cauliflower was humanely dispatched yesterday- and enjoyed. My cheese sauce needs working on- too thick to be right for cauliflower cheese. I'm tempted to go back to the market next week- with a trolley.

[MoyB in reply to Alberta56]

If you take a trolley you can buy loads! Don't get too carried away. Glad you enjoyed your cauli cheese. And I'm delighted to hear the the cauliflower was 'humanely dispatched'! 🤣🤣🤣 xx Moy

[sassy59]

Moral3: you did very well all things considered Alberta.

I love cauliflower. Enjoy yours. Xx👍❤️😂

[Hidden]

It will taste so much better knowing what you went through to get it. 😁🍽

[shouty]

Oh bless you but I bet it tasted all the better for the effort you had to put in ! x

[madonbrew]

Ooo I love 💕 cauliflower cheese...and broccoli 🥦 and potatoes 🥔... I bet yours will taste great knowing how lovely and fresh and white it is and the effort you went to get it! Ps...eat it whilst it’s still fresh and tasty!

[peege]

Yum, I use cauliflower instead of rice pasta or spuds.

[Aingeful]

They are very tempting at the moment! Enjoy it!

[Snackjack]

You will enjoy the cauliflower after all your effort to get it home. I also love cauliflower. Enjoy.👍😊

[watergazer]

🤣🤣 oh my I have vision of you lurking this cauliflower up the steps and cursing it. Steps are my undoing. Not as fit as I used to be. Take care. Enjoy your cauliflower x Anita

[Alberta56]

Steps are my undoing too. One of my last foreign holidays was to the Naples area. I found Herculaneum very hard going- down in a hole and full of steps. Pompeii was much better- flatter. Even Vesuvius was better than Herculaneum. At least it had no steps. 😄😄😄😄

[Jaybird19 in reply to Alberta56]

Oh I remember those steps ! I was relatively fit then and thought I would miss the coach back if I couldn't make it .

[Alberta56 in reply to Jaybird19]

Glad you made it. xxx

[Jaybird19 in reply to Alberta56]

Thanks . It was bad. Was there a warning or an alternative.? Remembered the best bits and I really enjoyed , even the gruesome skulls but I had forgotten "those steps" People stopped to help but couldn't do anything. How about you? It was shut out of my memory .!

[Alberta56 in reply to Jaybird19]

Actually, ironically, at Herculaneum,I came to the aid of a very fragile older man who stumbled on one lot of steps. I had half expected him to fall and when he did I grabbed him from behind while a couple of big strong chaps grabbed him from in front. He ended up sitting on my lap.😂😂😂He was determined to see Herc and Pompeii while he still could. Excitement over, back to puffing up the steps, but there was delicious Neapolitan pizza waiting up the top.🍕

[Jaybird19 in reply to Alberta56]

that wouldnt help your breathing ! well done though

[Gladwyn]

Oh they do look so good and tempting when big and white surrounded with healthy greens I can understand your lugging one home lol. Mmmmmm Enjoy! 💪😄

[CaptainPugwash]

Hope You Are Ok Now 🖤🖤

[Alberta56]

Recovering thank you. I have good days and bad days, but I got a reminder that day that bronchiectasis is for life.