Just pick that cauliflower!

Today I made a very quick visit. I knew before we went away for Christmas that there was a cauliflower developing in the Brassica cage and I had meant to drop in on my way to my Christmas hosts to cut it and take it with me. However, I forgot.
Thinking it must be very mature by now I nipped down to the plot to cut it. When I got to the cage I was very surprised to find the wind had blown open the doorway to one cage completely but was pleased that the pigeons had not found the way in!
Then when I looked the re were three fully developed heads so I cut all three.
One head was in rather a bad state as it had been attacked by caterpillars or slugs but I thought we might get something from it.
At home we decided to try the bedraggled one straight away and found that there was a lot of detritus in the stalks but  everything just washed off and it was all usable and tasted lovely.