It’s been almost a week now since I did the shopping. I’ve made no secret of my detestation of the act of shopping – it really is one thing I loathe. So, I buy everything online…..well, except clothes – sizes are so variable that I still don’t think I could risk clothes shopping online.

I use Sainsbury since I fell out with Tesco over the way their staff treated a disabled driver last year. Their online shopping experience is pretty good mostly except they have this one really annoying flaw. Their fresh produce can be bought in kilos or units. Whoever heard of buying anything by the kilo – especially fresh stuff – surely a kilo of almost anything would be too much.

Their system, however, defaults to kilos unless you specifically choose units. I make a point of choosing units and, last week, bought 4 courgettes. Seems simple enough doesn’t it? Well, except that I made the mistake of not changing the default from kilos and have ended up with four kilos of courgettes. I wasn’t home when the delivery man came and DM signed for the shopping. It didn’t occur to him that a carrier bag full of courgettes seemed a little excessive so he signed for them.

Now the one thing I really hate is wasted food. It grieves me no end to waste stuff. So, we’ve had courgettes in everything since then. We’ve had them with pasta, rice and even a ‘courgette frittata’ which still makes us chuckle because the egg marketing board has an ad that is a bunch of girls standing round a fridge that has a box of eggs and a couple of courgettes in it and nothing else. They’re scratching their head and saying it looks like a take-away tonight then when the sole chap comes forward and says what do you mean, we can have courgette frittata. He saves the day and they all eat a fabulous meal.

To tell the truth now I’m getting a little sick of courgettes with everything so tonight I’ve rebelled and despite having a fridge full of the damned things we are eating something courgette free.

In fact, I’d wanted to take a courgette skeleton shot for some time but haven’t used my skeleton technique since I finished making the calendars for the NYC girls. I decided today was the day, if only to make sure it was one courgette I wouldn’t have to eat!!!

Ah well, I’m back to the drawing board tomorrow – courgette fritters anyone?

NB – Beth, don’t worry, I won’t force-feed you and Sab courgettes all weekend!

BETH: Click here to see how I fulfilled my promise to you.