for halloween, a little firework set off in every home in the country, europe, perhaps the world

maybe it really is the day that saved the planet



we're only thinking seriously of green taxes 14 years after kyoto, 14 years after any first year geography or environmental studies student began writing about their place as part of the shift to making the polluter pay....i thought government was for taking the big decisions?

the green manure, cut a few weeks ago seems to have found a happy home to germinate, in late october



im not sure the neighbour who leant me the tractor will find it quite so amusing

after a fifteen year stretch as a vegetarian, the river cottage meat book and jane grigsons charcuterie have been the indispensible guides into the land of carnivory...both getting the kind of splattering with a variety of innards that, suitably soaked, they would probably provide the basis of a highly nutritious stock

but tonight, it was hughs text that delivered in spades...the first ruby red sirloin steaks, cooked to perfection