Trout

To have the best barbequed trout you should flip it every two minutes for approximately eight minutes.

I fell in love with Julian, when he flipped the trout after the first two minutes on the barbeque in the north west corner of their garden in Dubrovnik, on a late August Saturday afternoon. When his wrist turned, I followed his blue vein disappearing under the folded sleeve of his grey shirt. His wife’s dark brown hair was moving in the breeze while she was enthusiastically describing a character of her last novel that had become the bestseller of 2016. 
 
I was still married to Ivor then, and it was time to flip the trout once more, before it was ready to be served.
 

14 January 2018