Hey Ahab

Ok - let's be honest - would you really buy a bag of potatoes like this?

The irony is I returned a bag of potatoes to a Sainsbury's (UK) store today and asked to speak to the duty manager. I produced two rotten potatoes and one green potato from a 2.5 kg bag ( just over 5ibs ). I observed that in a twenty five kilo bag this would amount to 30 inedible spuds. Way over the limits and guidelines set by our Government. The manager replaced the old bag without a quibble. What you see however is a sample of what was contained in the new bag!!

This has been going on for months at Sainsbury's - getting really bad potatoes - and now I feel there's a story in the making....

A blip friend who knows all about potatoes is PATRICE'S PASSION When she went home to visit her Father on his birthday - he is an Idaho potato farmer - she discovered her dear sister Deanne was unwell. Tragically Deanne has been diagnosed with Leukemia and is seriously ill. Patrice is by her bedside at hospital and I have just spoken to her on Skype a few moments ago. To compound this awful situation Patrice's son Jaxson has also been unwell and is also in hospital.

Please will you mention them in your prayers and send Patrice a note. They are all very special people!

Prior to speaking to Patrice this evening this was the music I'd chosen to blip HEY AHAB it still seems strangely apposite.

Hey Ahab

It's a constant struggle getting up that hill
There's a change of guard every day
When you're clinging onto a driftwood boat
You pray a great white whale might come your way

No freeway traffic in the frozen North
Just a chain link fence full of birds
And when the harpoon's loaded in the cannon bay
You'll be rolling through the pages lost for words

Hey Ahab can you tell me where
I can catch a ride out of here
Hey Ahab hoist that sail
You gotta stand up straight
When you ride that whale

In a crumbling city we were trapped for days
With a broken sun above the clouds
Caught like Jonah forty fathams down
And a sign on the wall saying, "Hope Allowed"

All the cryptic symbols carved on bone
A far cry from a tattooed rose
And when the boys in the rigging catch the wind

We'll all weigh anchor and it's westward ho

Hey Ahab can you tell me where
I can catch a ride out of here
Hey Ahab hoist that sail
You gotta stand up straight
When you ride that whale

Hey Ahab can you tell me where
I can catch a ride out of here
Hey Ahab hoist that sail
You gotta stand up straight
When you ride that whale

Elton John & Bernie Taupin