OK, what have I been provided to eat for lunch today at the private hospital?
OK, for a start it’s cold because the warming cabinet is full of slabs of meat for the orthopaedic surgeons et al. Not sure the identity of the fish when it was alive, but now it’s been coated in some sort of flavourless paprika mix and fried. An ignominious end. The veges were all green before they were bleached by prolonged boiling, and the predominant ingredient seems to be the devil’s vegetable once again. Does the hospital get a discount for buying bulk from the unwanted vegetable emporium? Anyway, I mustn’t complain – mostly because the lovely tech who delivered it to me in theatre is actually fasting for Ramadan so it would be cruel and churlish.