But it IS good for ducks and gardens …

All this rain rain rain was giving me the squelchy blues, until I looked through my green tinted spectacles and saw what it was doing for the plants.  There is apparently a reason that England is known as a “green&pleasant land”, and it’s not for...

Tricks of the Trade

Asparagus.  It’s loaded with vitamins, has supposed aphrodisiacal powers and is reputed to cure a hangover.   Entire festivals are devoted to it’s arrival.  People write reams in newspaper columns about the “joys of asparagus”. Am I missing...