Hello stranger!
by admin on Apr.19, 2009, under Uncategorized
Hey! I’m back!
Twittering is too difficult when you are as boring as me.
So here’s whats been going on if you are interested: Book is now at the final draft stage. It’s with the copy editor at the moment. Poor woman - she’s got her work cut out as my grammar and spelling is dreadful.
I’ve also been talking to agents to help me make the most of the book when it goes on sale and I think I’ve found one who actually likes me and who I like too. Next stop is the PR strategy and I have a plan. Its good.
Meanwhile, just saw this story on ananova:
“Breast milk cheese served at art show
Cheese made with breast milk has been served at the launch of a new art exhibition in London.
Mexican artist Raul Ortega Ayala named the show “Alejandra Ortiz-Reynoso”, after the woman who donated the milk, the Daily Express reported.
A spokeswoman said: “He makes the cheese in the normal way - it’s just a standard process.
The cheese was served simply, with a more traditional accompaniment of crackers.”
REBLOODYVOLTING! A tiny bit of sick has just popped into my throat just at the thought. But if you think that’s bad - I’ve got a whole disgusting section about breastmilk in my book. Here’s a sneaky and yucky excerpt:
A real mummy says: “I came up with a rather ingenious way to use up the copious amounts of expressed breast milk that I was producing for my 4 month old baby. I made breast milk ice lollies, which my 3 year old son would happily eat in the summer time. Did I ever give one to any of my son’s friends? Yes! A few times. They all loved them. (Yucky, yucky, dirty lady)”
Thats all for now. I’m off to bath the kids.
Tash x
p.s - I have once again deleted a load of comments when getting rid of spam. I’m sorry. I am shit. But I love you. Darling.
April 19th, 2009 on 6:42 pm
i wonder if the woman who made the mammory milk lollies ever told the parents of her kids friends what she had fed them??? it shouldnt be ghastly but it sure is.
April 25th, 2009 on 7:46 am
Hi Tash, This is a can of worms (so to speak). There is a really big yuk factor but I reckon that humans are pretty evenly split into those who consume their own, err, exudates, and those who don’t. Also there is a threshold which pretty strictly divides edible from gross. The breast milk lolly story illustrates it well: Obviously its good to feed to ones own nursing children but soon becomes taboo when the children are not your own or are perhaps not young enough. I imagine that self-consumption is never bad (even if not admitted in public). Without spelling it out I reckon that men are split 50/50 into those who consume their own ‘lovin spoonful’, and those who don’t… this is a very dodgy, but fascinating area. Looking forward to the book !
Nice to read you here again. Twittering aint as good somehow.
Simon
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April 29th, 2009 on 2:39 am
Is human milk very different in taste from other animals’ milk?
April 29th, 2009 on 12:19 pm
Thanks for coming back, Tash. I can’t get into twitter and went into a steep decline when you went away - so steep in fact that I’ve only just found you’ve come back. As for the cheese stuff - see my earlier comments about cheese. It’s wrong in all its forms - except for cheesecake, because that’s got ‘cake’ in the name.
And how about the promised podcast? Or am I just being greedy?
Good to have you back.
Much love,
Oz
May 20th, 2009 on 11:54 am
Tash,
Where are you, mate? You ok?
Much love,
Oz