Age doesn't come alone. Very true. For those of us who are experiencing this phenomenon that adage will have deep meaning.
Sunday: cooking lunch - take off skillet pan lid; glasses well and truly steam up just as I start stirring the contents.
Stirrer gets misplaced, I feel it start to lurch backwards over the pan and I try to save it by leaning forward to break its fall, unsuccesfully
Glasses come off - I can see better in this domestic situation without them! In any case, I decide, it's probably safer not to have them on. With a sudden horrible realisation I become aware I am just a bit too near lit gas and there could easily have been a singeing accident, or worse.
Light green sweat shirt marked from stirrer, I have to change my top and get oil marks out of green sweat shirt. Put on dark blue one with white United Nations logo on it.
Spectacles have now cleared of steam and I can use them again to deal with other preparations for our lunch.
I wait till stuff just off the steamy point before serving up. The rest of the meal is good but carrots turn out just a bit too al dente. My teeth are still fine, even if they are ageing with me, so they'll cope with the carrots okay.
