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Articles by Colin Cross

Authoritarianism

A View From The Greenhouse (Putin-Mad, Bad, Or Just Being Vlad)

8th March 2022 Colin Cross 3740 Comments

“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” as the saying goes and it’s as true for owners of large glass structures as it is for anyone else. Since my last epistle we’ve faced [more…]

Business

A View From The Greenhouse (“Brexit” Disastrophe)

22nd February 2022 Colin Cross 3482 Comments

In Scotland and Lancashire they had (maybe they still do have) Wakes Week, a time when factories, mines and the like closed for 7 days to allow people to go to Blackpool, get pissed and [more…]

17th Century

A View From The Greenhouse (A Savile Jibe, Really?)

8th February 2022 Colin Cross 3921 Comments

If you thought strawberry tales was boring, then I guess you’d better hold my coat (as the saying goes). Following several days of not being able to even enter the greenhouse, apart from a cursory [more…]

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View From The Greenhouse (Envies Of The World, Innit?)

25th January 2022 Colin Cross 3165 Comments

Unless you’re a strawberry obsessive then the first part of this installment of my bi-weekly greenhouse diary ramblings is going to be incredibly boring. Thankfully, as so few even bother to read the articles, much [more…]

Diary

View From The Greenhouse; No Gender Change Please, We’re British

11th January 2022 Colin Cross 3829 Comments

Another year comes around and, with it, a couple of days for quiet reflection, mostly to let the pudding settle. I don’t normally make a start in the old greenhouse much before February, the weather [more…]

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Growing In A Pandemic – End Of Season

19th October 2021 Colin Cross 3411 Comments

I’d intended to have a little rant about the continuing brouhaha surrounding “vaccines”, “vaccine passports” and such matters, as it seems pretty clear to me that those who we employ to govern us have spent [more…]

Authoritarianism

Plant Tending In A Pandemic; Untying The Gordian Knot

8th September 2021 Colin Cross 3446 Comments

My reference to “untying the Gordian Knot” is somewhat ethereal. I’ve been giving some though to the complex threads that underpin the whole Covid “debate” whilst, at the same time, taking some note of which [more…]

Conservatives

Growing In A Pandemic; Highs & Lows, Reflections

24th August 2021 Colin Cross 3103 Comments

It’s getting to the time of year in the greenhouse where the majority of the grunt work is done, a time when I can sit back, enjoy the fruits of my haphazard “rough” labour and [more…]

Conservatives

Growing In A Pandemic; Blackbirdgate; Show edition; Cult Of Boris

10th August 2021 Colin Cross 3366 Comments

It’s easy to get carried along on a tide of populism, although it’s often dependent on what your view or definition of populism is. The dictionary defines it broadly as “a political approach that strives [more…]

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