Fish fingers?? Let me mullet over...

Things that happened today:

Number one
I admired the quality of a public toilet and then took a photo of it. Honestly it was brilliant: a good flush, hand soap containers filled right up, hand dryers that make the water on your hands rue the day it came out of that tap... Yes, Copeland Borough Council should be proud of the public loos at St Bees.
Should I explain this or leave you thinking I love toilets?

Number two
I declined the kind offer by Richard Donnan Sr at Donnan's Quayside Fisheries to put my finger inside the mouth of a grey mullet. A live one."Its ok, they don't have teeth" says an onlooker, putting his finger into the mouth of a second mullet. The two men stand expectantly with their fingers in mullets' mouths, the third mullet looks hopeful, I can feel the pressure building...

No I didn't do it. While Richard had been busy filleting fish prior to the mouth probing, which the mullet was clearly enjoying the flavour of, I had been petting a dog on St Bees beach.

Grey mullet are described by one internet-based encyclopedia (so that would be Wikipedia then) as being thick-bodied with blunt heads. Harsh but true. They are,*ahem* grey in colour, have great big scales and, as I learned today, no teeth. Utterly unappealing. Grey mullet you're the worst!
But now a new fish is appearing on our menus! Grey mullet, get your big thick bodies out of the way, silver mullet is coming through....hang on, you can't kid a kidder - that's grey mullet back again, I'd recognise that blunt head anywhere!
So apparently grey mullet is the next example in a line of fish (and celebrities) who have changed their names in an effort to make them more appealing. Somebody somewhere reckons that silver mullet sounds tastier than grey mullet. Another example - Chilean seabass, mmm I just love it... suckers! Its Patagonian toothfish! Rock salmon? That would be spiny dogfish - an overfished shark. Apparently back in 2009, Sainsbury's tried to rename pollack as 'colin' because people were embarrassed to ask for pollack. Well, fair play to Sainsbury's for trying (and it is definitely NOT embarrassing to go to the fish counter and ask for a piece of Colin...).

What's my point? Ah I'm not sure. Well I am really. My point is that grey mullet is AWESOME, you (and it) should not pay a bit of attention to its negative press; beauty is only skin deep and it's what's on the inside that counts. And I hear that this is one tasty little blunt-headed fish, so give it a try! It can't help its name, or its toothless gummy mouth... (what have grey mullet and the Beckhams' new baby got in common...).

So tuna may be big, red and meaty, grrrr, and swordfish may be beautiful and pure white, ahhh, but who cares. Grey mullet is a good (and cheap) British fish and I will show him my appreciation by eating him sometime soon.

Number three
I had this said to me:  "Great hair. Ha ha". ????