The other day, we overheard someone saying, “That really appeals to David and I.” That this most basic of grammatical errors has now become the norm is irritating enough, but on this occasion the sentence was spoken by a teacher. At the risk of being pedantic, I feel that our teachers should be setting a [...]
It is often said that if you don’t ask you don’t get, and if you don’t try something you will never know whether or not it is good. I think we’d all agree that this theory can break down – when it comes to the eating of slugs, for instance. But don’t worry, I’m not [...]
Am I the only one who gets irritated by all the updates on software that keep appearing on the computer screen? There I am, just clicking on the internet to check something, and a message comes up telling me that Firefox will be few minutes because it is installing updates. So I have to just [...]
Mark my words, when all’s said and done, it can be the Devil’s own business coming up with diary entries that are just what the doctor ordered. But, though I might find myself in the doldrums, I wouldn’t want it to be like a millstone round my neck, so I must gird my loins. The [...]
I broke a fingernail today. That may not mean much to you, but it was a highly significant moment for me. The fact is that there was a time when broken fingernails represented my normal state. Not so many years ago, my nails would chip, split and flake all the time. They were inherently weak, [...]
The day after the day after the day before yesterday, and all is well. The day before yesterday we were at Broadfield Court organising and setting up as much as we could for our first Celebration of Real Food. This was very much a pilot event, a toe-in-the-water experiment to see whether or not we [...]
The Earth is 94 million miles from the Sun, yet standing in our garden on any given day over the last few weeks has been pretty much like standing next to a roaring log fire – and this isn’t even as hot as it gets on this planet. Actually, it is not even as hot [...]
Much has been said by me on the subject of Jimmy Doherty and his morbid fascination with our mechanised global food system, but there is just one more little niggle that I feel compelled to get off my chest, and that is the question of customer choice. Standing in the middle of a vast field [...]