It seems such a long time since the last diary entry, and an age since Barack Obama became the President of the USA. With all good intentions, I had made a mental note to allow no more than seven days to pass between entries, but alas and alack, I am not time rich at the [...]
So the 44th President of the United States of America takes the stand, and the world breathes a sigh of relief. Of course, we all know that this is still the good ol’ U S of A, and that it is the only imperial power left in the world. We know it is corrupt, but [...]
We threw away some hemp seeds the other day. But only because we discovered them in a jar at the back of the cupboard, where they had languished for long enough for us to believe that they were no longer efficacious. In retrospect, I wondered whether we might have been a bit hasty. After all, [...]
Let’s face it. Happy accountants are about as common as pink goats. But we are blessed with a Numbers Man who is always wreathed in smiles and not above an infectious chuckle or two. In fact, the chuckle can become quite unsettling when we sit down in his office and he says, “Now, about your [...]
From the kitchen window, I can see the slope of the gabled roof of Aspen Cottage. Protruding from the wall below this gable is the flue from the kitchen boiler. With no let-up in the frosty conditions since before Christmas, we often see the little cloud of condensation that forms when the hot air hits [...]
We had occasion to go to Abergavenny the other day. We are checking up on various bookshops and other outlets that have had copies of The Food Maze on sale-or-return, and we thought we might call in to the Abergavenny Bookshop and see how sales are going. I suppose we could just have phoned up, [...]