I sat at the work lunch table on this particular ordinary day. One of my colleagues leaned over and took a deep sniff.

“Yum! What’s that you’ve got?”

Being a home-lunch-packer, I received this question often and was only too happy to oblige. “It’s a South African Indian version of a sort of shepherd’s pie.”

She peered curiously into my pink bento box. “With spaghetti as well as mashed potato?”

The glass shattered.

Yes. This cottage pie did indeed have both mashed potato and spaghetti. Was that unusual? Of course it was unusual. Why had I never realised this before?… Read More Meat and three veg