Don't Forget Your Lunch!

It’s never good to forget your lunch – that sinking feeling as you realise your error, the pangs of loss as you picture your cheese roll, wrapped, but forgotten, lonely on the sideboard, the childlike vulnerability as you wish your mum could be there to right your sorry plight…

No, it’s never good to forget your lunch – especially when you forget the same lunch for three whole days when it was already left-overs from the night before. It looked pretty suspect in the beginning, but now, three hot humid tropical days later, it takes a brave man to lift the lid of the Tupperware….

My! If ants had botanists they would surely marvel at the complex eco-systems growing inside! Their very own Eden Project! In fact, I think even an Oxford Master of Botany would be impressed at the rampant plant life that can be cultivated in a lunch box.