I am not part of the mobile phone culture. That’s not to say I don’t have a mobile phone. I do. It’s around ten years old now and laughably old-fashioned. It struggles to do more than make and receive calls. But that’s fine by me – it does the job it was designed to do. [...]
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Three bullfinches were spotted in our garden today. A cause for jubilation, we might say, as bullfinches are now increasingly rare. No doubt they are eyeing up the buds of apple blossom about to burst open, for bullfinches love to eat blossom, you see. This is a deep irritation for profit-conscious fruit growers of course. [...]
Just the other day, I saw a disparaging reference to Al Gore. Not the first one I’ve seen of course but, considering it is six years since the release of his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, it is surprising that he is still being pilloried for giving us all that bad news and for ‘inventing the [...]
And, talking of milk . . . The day I was tested for food intolerance on two different kinds of milk (pasteurised and unpasteurised, both organic) is often described by Sally or me as our Eureka Moment. At the time though, I had no idea how emphatic a moment that would turn out to be. [...]
Anyone who knows us will probably know by now that Tuesday is Milk Day, when we go to a local farm to collect raw unpasteurised milk for a growing band of people around our area. We are impressed by the increasing level of interest in this precious whole food. Gone are the days when we [...]
A couple of days ago, it was brought to my attention that the New York Times is running a small essay competition, and it was suggested that I should submit an entry. Up for the challenge, I followed the link and found that NYT had assembled what they describe as ‘a veritable murder’s row of [...]
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