David, you forgot one thing - the farmhouse kitchen table was almost white having been scrubbed hard so many times.
We make cakes, pickles, jams, chutneys and marmalades. In the autumn we walk the railway footpaths and pick blackberries, sloes (wonderful jam), damsons, crab apples,wild raspberries. We grow potatoes in large plant pots (keeps the slugs and worms away). We also have a local farm, but with a Jersey herd whose home bottled milk is half full of yellow cream and we also have a family butcher whose bacon is dry cured and when fried keeps its shape and flavour. Life is wonderful without Tesco & ASDA if you know where to look. I have never been in a MacDonalds, only eaten Burger King at motorway services and only occasionally visit a KFC. Our treat each week is battered cod & chips from the local fish & chip shop.
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There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, it hardly behoves any of us to talk about the rest of us
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