Happy New Year, Dear Reader ( Read more... )

Apparently High Street Shopping is well on the decline.  Presumably Back Street Shopping even more so, though given the kind of shops which tend to inhabit back streets . . .

( Personal vs Internet Shopping )

I've recently started a correspondence with a friend from LJ.  That's right, Dear Reader, LJ bloggers are also real people and you can actually write directly to them, with their permission of course ( Read more... )

I mentioned yesterday how, if farms are industrialised then everything comes down to the bottom line.  How much will this cost (in money)?  How much profit (in money) will be made?  I also mentioned that this is a very poor method of judging the 'success' of things - as any Reader who works for a Big Company will doubtless have realised.  Potential ( Read more... )

Au jour d'hui il pleut!  Which is just as well as it's been sunny and dry, if cooler, for a good long while now.  Good thing I put the washing out yesterday.  Various things in the garden were looking decidedly floppy.  Here's hoping the rain gets into their containers and revives them.  Only the rampageous honeysuckle, which is planted into the ( Read more... )

Three French Hens

Well, for those who were interested, the Revenge of the Apostrophe was actually due to a staple which had slid down inside the keyboard & was shorting a few bits together in the innards.  H performed sucessful exploratory surgery & an even more sucessful staplextomy.  Now all I have to bother about is the flashing autosave!

( Read more... )

What Price Community?

Well, the Government, governed itself by financial considerations, is proposing closing loads of Post Offices.   Bad Idea, people!  Very often the rural Post Office cum General Store is the backbone of a village community.  For that matter, how many of us have spent hours queuing (we're British, we queue) in some city Post ( Read more... )