Chenevaux courgettes

Every year Mark tells me not to plant so many courgettes.  They're not his favourite veg to say the least.  So only 3 for 2011, compared to 5 last year.  Its not so much the taste of them, more their behaviour, which may be particular to the ones we grow here at Chenevaux - have you had expereinces of badly behaved courgettes as well?  They really are sneaky, we go out in the morning and pick the ones that look ready and as soon as our backs are turned they send out some more.  Sometimes they grow so much in a day that they turn from lovely little things to great monsters.  One year we had so many that we put a whole load in the back of a van that belongs to a local cafe owner (she had already told us that she had too many of her own but we didn't want to take them home again) and asked the post lady to give them away free on her rounds,   Anyway as you can see, courgette time is here again!