I've been having a recurring dream. It is about a gorgeous, curvy, tasty creature. The creature is cheap, but in my dream certainly never nasty. The creature's name is Bonita.
Yes I have been dreaming about bananas. We haven't eaten them for months and are in serious banana withdrawal. I can now blame all my incompetencies, inadequacies and inefficiencies on being deficient in all the things I usually score from my banana intake.
Cyclone Yasi swung by in February and wiped out most of Queensland's banana crop and since then prices have gone up and up and up - just like they did a few years ago when Larry swung by. Apparently Australia does not import bananas though my deprived brain cannot come up with any good reasons for this. Today bananas were priced at $18.95 a kg at my local supermarket. After weighing one and doing some calculations I worked out that at the rate this household usually disposes of bananas that that would add at least another $80 to the weekly shop. Given that my weekly grocery bill is already almost double the number I used to spend in New Zealand, I yet again went home bananaless.
Well at least I have my dreams. Of banana cake, banana muffins, banana pikelets, banana fritters, banana and jam on toast, plain old emergency handbag banana .....
..... and of September when affordable bananas will apparently start making their way back into the shops.
