Riddikulus

"Swish and flick."

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

We've been watching all the Harry Potter movies lately, which we had lost touch with as our boys turned into lads and then men. When Harry and his compadres use the "riddikulus" spell in the "Prisoner of Azkaban" to charm a Boggart we see the power of mirth over malevolence.

It seems true that dark forces do not enjoy been ridiculed, and ego is firmly in the domain of the decidedly dim. Witnessing lasting and consuming anger when those of thin skin are gentled from alt-always-right to alt-actual-reality has made us wary of using such power.

Having said that, it seemed that we were (as usual) harvesting a ridiculous number of zucchinis (a yearly theme from past blogs). Their thin skins were being sliced and diced to make all number of creative dishes, plus we were giving them away to unwary and nonplussed recipients, but still we couldn't keep up with the production from the garden.

So - the plan was to fashion a wand from one of our raspberry canes and swish and flick our way to an alt-vegetable-reality. The result of this amateur alchemy? Ridiculous!

OK so that didn't go so well!