I’ve never consciously wanted to be a vegetarian. But we visited cousin David’s allotment the other week and he gave us some excellent tomatoes and some handsome beetroot. So I made beetroot crumble with shallots and goat’s cheese. And it was very good ! And then someone else gave us an handful of courgettes. AndContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 160”
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Through a glass darkly – 141
We spent Christmas at Homelands at Lundin Links, enjoying time with Craig and Amelia and Eloïse, and the hospitality of Jan and Colin and Kitty. It was mild and dry, and our room looked across the links golf course to the coastal path of the Firth of Forth. Remembering the Sixties October 1962 is whereContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 141”
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[un]Pop-Cons Tories want war chalked on the brickwork of a railway bridge is my first ‘political’ memory. The bridge was opposite Southfields station on the London Underground. It was probably the 1950 election. And the war reference may [or may not] have related to Korea. That memory is triggered by the launch of a newContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 119”
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