Wooden cutting board with sesame and nigella seeds. From cutting sourdough loaf studded with same. The sesame seeds look like sesame seeds. The nigella seeds, though, look remarkably like mouse turds. Not that we’ve ever had mice here.
Rodents not unknown, though, and there are undoubtedly rats in the fields but the feral cats do a pretty good job of keeping their numbers down. In fact locals have been known to point out that feeding homeless cats gives them little incentive to kill rats and snakes. Actually there’s often a fair cultural difference between Cypriots and British expats re animals in general.
Though it was a Scandinavian women who was appalled by the name of a little charity shop in Larnaca - Curiosity Killed the Cat. Tried explaining that it was a childhood rhyme and that the following line was a more encouraging‘satisfaction brought it back’ but she was clearly unpersuaded. For who would joke about the death of a cat?
Reminiscent of the unfortunate Canadian in England totally unable to convince a horrified local that her Dead Dog Café sweatshirt was a tribute to Indigenous satire on Canadian public radio. Some things just don’t translate well.
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