At last, Wiggly Wigglers has come to the top of our list of Places to Visit Today. Who could deny that any enterprise calling itself Wiggly Wigglers must indeed be worth a visit? Though you might never guess it from the name, Wiggly Wigglers is just another example of innovative thinking by a beleaguered farming [...]
Sunday has come around once more, and the Aspen House Team sit down to a hearty breakfast, as per usual. However, on this occasion, it appears that they are so tired they can hardly lift a fork. In trying to find the reason for this apparent exhaustion, we discover that The Team has just ‘done [...]
Milk day again, which brings with it a question that I cannot answer: why do I get back more milk bottles than I give out? Easy, you might say. It’s because your customers are getting your bottles mixed up with the ones from the milkman, you might say. “Not so,” I say. How can that [...]
Hurrah! Our Tech Team was on the case first thing this morning, and the technical problems around the dairy have been taken care of. So I have been able to get back into the entry with the ‘deliberate mistake’ and put it right. Too late though – everyone has seen it by now!
Ah, Sunday – our favourite day of the week. I know I have mentioned this before, but Sunday is the one day of the week when we can relax and enjoy a decent breakfast. And, as our guests keep telling us, breakfast doesn’t come any better than at Aspen House so, fortuitously, we are by [...]
Thank you to all of those who spotted my deliberate mistake in the entry for Friday 7th November. That line should of course have read ‘ . . . the Sun orbits the Earth . . .’ I tried to go back into the website to change it, but the software had thrown all the [...]
On the way over to Monmouth on Tuesday night, we went via Carey Organic to pick up some eggs for breakfast the next day. I know what you are thinking. Why did we leave it until the last minute to pick up eggs? Why didn’t we get them before? Why didn’t we have enough in [...]
We were out again tonight, but not to dinner. This time it was to give a talk to Monmouth Fair Trade Forum on the connection between Fair Trade and local trade. It seems strange to us that the two ideas should be seen as separate, but apparently, in the opinion of the Fairtrade Foundation, there [...]
Well, here’s a first, or very nearly. We were invited out to dinner last night by someone who is not a family member. Rachel, from Whitethorn Farm (Carey Organic), had extended the invitation, but it is so unusual to be asked to dinner that we had to check with Martin just to make sure. Evidently, [...]
A chance remark the other day made me think about Government claims that our schoolchildren are getting brighter all the time. They are of course basing this statement on ‘results’, as is the government way. “Targets and results – that’s what we need! That’ll show the world how well we are doing!” Every year, it [...]