A kind friend in our village gave us some rhubarb.

Not a problem for most people - indeed it would be regarded as a wonderfully generous gesture. Here however it has caused panic.

Little Brown wants to get it cooked - not just stewed, but some fancy recipe he saw on the TV using it with smoked fish! Now much as we'd love to humour him, we just don't have the fish - so stewing it is. We'd also best get it done before the inevitable LB tantrum which will end up with the rhubarb being used as a weapon.

It's also a bit worrying to see Little Brown's reading coming along - OK we called up the web site, but it looks as though he can recognise the word "fish".

I see trouble ahead. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.








By the way here's the recipe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hotsmokedsalmonwithr_91054