Did you bake banana bread at any time last year?  Or grow your own vegetables, fruit and flowers?  Or even your own sourdough culture (and name it)?

No, Dear Reader, we didn't either, exactly.  Though there are some overripe bananas rattling around in the bottom drawer of the freezer.  Maybe this time?

( Growing Your Own )

It is necessary merely for Good People to do nothing ( Read more... )

We are now in week four of Lockdown, albeit a voluntary one.  It seems to be working quite well.

( Easter Weekend )

  Last Christmas there was a new number 1, in support of Trussell Trust Food Banks

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  Apparently there was a headline out yesterday which stated that people going to Food Banks are not getting a balanced diet ( Read more... )

Have you heard the Meritine ad?  'Nutritional Support for the Over-Fifties ( Read more... )

As regular Readers may know, I campaign on occasions about various things close to my heart - justice, poverty, mental (ill) health pollution, to name a few (gosh I have dyselxic fengirs today ( Read more... )

Saturday evening I looked at the clock, 21:44, looked out at the sky, still light, streetlights just thinking about coming on.  Then I remembered what I'd told you, Dear Reader, and went out to have a look-see at the western skies - ahses and clahds permitting.  As it happened there was a thick bank of low cloud due west.  Slightly north of west, ( Read more... )

I'll tell 'ee of Magna Carta ( Read more... )

As far as I can see, and that's from the position of a concerned outsider, the Israeli government has, after recent elections, taken a violent swerve to the Right.  This does not bode well for peace in the country, the Right doesn't even acknowledge the Palestinians, let alone acknowledge their right to exist on lands of their own or as part of a ( Read more... )

A few words about the whole Ched Evans furore.  Ched Evans is a footballer, a Wales International no less.  He's 25 now.  He was accused of rape, tried and found guilty and sentenced to five years for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel in near Rhyl in May 2011.  He has maintained all along that the sex he had with the woman was consensual.  She ( Read more... )