More of the same

  Though this is basically a continuation of yesterday's message, the plan isn't to ram it down your throat like you're some kind of dummy, (which I know you're not), it's more a result of me getting towards the end of yesterday's post and realising how I'd only just started scratching the surface as I was getting toward the end.

  There can be a fine line between work and play. You can bet Michelangelo would have been a lot less keen to paint the Sistine chapel if he'd been handed a few hundred gallons of dulux magnolia and a roller on day one. Many tasks that might feel like chores can't be outsourced: I'm sure even Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't have a servant to lean his teeth at night, though it's quite fun to imagine such a scene.

I'm likin' lichen

  Cooking is right on that very fine line. It can be outsourced, but shouldn't be as much as it is. It's both fun and a chore, depending on your attitude. In an ideal, (in my mind), world, everyone loves cooking and the only time they get outside help is when the meal is so big that even with the whole family in the kitchen, that's still not enough cooks. In the horrible impending future of my nightmares, no one cooks because they don't want to and everything they eat comes from factories and is heated in microwaves, while a fancy meal resembles the restaurant scene from the film Brazil.

  The only realistic way to a future where people can cook if they want to, i.e. because they know how, is by making the experience an enjoyable one. No other incentive will work. Generally speaking, unless a doctor tells you that you're going to die unless you give or take up something then it's difficult to motivate folk to engage in something with gusto.

  If you're anything like me, (you mean a cynical, curmudgeonly, misanthrope? -Ed.),  then it may be too late to convince you that something you consider a major ball-ache is actually a lot of fun. However, you may be lucky and have an open minded nature and be willing to embrace new possibilities. If so, maybe we need to do a skills swap. I'll show you about the joys of cooking and you can show me the joys of everything else.

Kirk out

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