Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Not even plain vanilla

Too much rain (in Mexico) and too much drought (in India) will jointly & severally combine to deprive me of one of the loves of my life for the near future.

The vanilla harvest has been badly hit in both countries, so at the very least there will be substantial rises in price.

I may just have to make do with the ersatz stuff of my childhood, which was often the only kind available in those years of austerity & rationing.