In which the Rodent introduces itself to the blogosphere.

I decided I should have a blog. I have a livejournal - Supermouse is my username there - and lately I've been happily wittering on it again, but the idea of an actual blog is attractive, if only as somewhere to eventually place strange links.

I don't do anything much, because I am usually too ill to work, which means also too ill to go out much. Currently I am paying for an active day with some severely aching muscles, so I am awake at an unearthly hour and bored.

Today's foodstuff is Saint Agur Blue, a soft, squidgy blue cheese with a very rich flavour which isn't as bitter as most blues - it is more umami than bitter, creamy enough to please those ambivalent about blue cheeses and not so salty that it won't go well with digestive biscuits. It's my favourite blue cheese for having with things. I only discovered it a couple of years ago and fell in love with its malleable texture. I didn't know blue cheese could be so gooey. In England I see it most often sold in a characteristic dark green wedge-shaped cardboard container on a plastic tray. Try it on a poppy seed biscuit with a slice of raw carrot.