I make no excuses for re-visiting this subject. Many people have heard of Yorkshire tea, but not many people know where it’s from. The T fields of Barnsley are awash with product. Rotherham has one or two cultivated areas of tea production. It’s about the only cultivated thing in Rotherham. Although they do make the most excellent greenhouses there, I know I have one, so you would expect cultivation to be rife, but the tea grows better in Barnsley. People should know that Yorkshire tea is harvested almost entirely at night by ex miners watched over by their ‘norahbatties’ which … Continue reading Yorkshire Tea

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Missing the Summer Fete season with lockdown, not many of these have been going on, so where are all those ladies what bake. I love a Vicky Sponge, I even have a liking for the industrial manufactured versions with their wafer thin covering of ‘jam’ and eight of an inch of ‘buttercream”. Continue reading Victoria Sponge

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We’ve all been buying a lot on-line in these days of lockdown, if it can really be called that here in the UK where we seem to be considerably behind the curve. The latest debacle being “Wear a mask”, or ” Don’t bother” or even worse “Why bother?”. We’ll find out in time that we should all be wearing them, especially in shops. Listening to a government minister on the radio this morning obfuscating on whether we should wear one or not was enough to get my blood pressure rising unhealthily. It seems that they cannot answer the simplest question … Continue reading Write me a review, on second thoughts, perhaps not.

I’ve been lucky to avoid taking medication until recently when I was obliged to start on some to get rid of an infection. As a bit of light reading I took a glance at the side effects for these anti biotics which were going to rescue me from pain and discomfort. Who writes this stuff? It’s all very careful and as a result I was tempted to the following a cartoon. Laughter being the best medicine and it’s the only one with multiple side effects that are not remotely harmful apart from deep guffawing which might put your back out, … Continue reading Side effects

Howard Hughes the American entrepreneur who alledgedly went a bit of the rails later in his life, invented a plane which was nicknamed ” The Spruce Goose”. It was apparently huge, made of wood, and did fly now and again. I wonder if Hughes was inspired by the pigeons on an allotment plot. The beasts that frequent my allotment are more than well fed. Only American Style Federal Penitentiary style protection will save crop from decimation. These pigeons are so big they can barely take off, and it looks like quite a lot of effort goes into getting them up … Continue reading The biggest beast on the plot

You’ve heard the excuses and you just know it does not ring true. In the case of Dominic Cummings here in the UK, he broke the lockdown that he himself had advised on. He came up with the very feeblest of excuses which included testing his eyesight by driving to Barnard Castle. It was even worse than the dog ate my homework as in his case he cannot find the word sorry in his dictionary. So we are adding a new word to the dictionary. The word: a noun, is Barnard Castle, and I’m sorry for anyone living there that … Continue reading “The dog ate my homework”