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Articles by Colin Cross

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

11th January 2022 Colin Cross 0

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 0

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 0

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…]

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Growing In A Pandemic; Highs & Lows, Reflections

24th August 2021 Colin Cross 0

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 0

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…]

Authoritarianism

Growing, Foraging, Eating In A Pandemic; Mask Wars 2

27th July 2021 Colin Cross 0

Mask Wars Part Deux Like many other people (no doubt) I looked forward, with mounting anticipation, to walking up to the bar in my local, being greeted by a smiling serving wench and taking my [more…]

Cooking

Tomato Growing In A Pandemic – Mask Wars

13th July 2021 Colin Cross 0

Mask Wars It had to happen and, once it did, the inevitability of the reaction was, strangely enough, inevitable. The mask has taken on a symbolism all its own. On one side of the argument [more…]

Arts

Rough Gardening In A Pandemic & 40 Things To Do…….

29th June 2021 Colin Cross 0

An eventful couple of weeks on the political front has culminated in a horny Government Minister apologising (and having his apology accepted by the PM), not for shagging his bit of spare, but for “Breaking [more…]

Authoritarianism

Veg Growing In A Pandemic (Is Enough Ever Enough)

15th June 2021 Colin Cross 0

Firstly, let’s get something out of the way. I never was a violent man. Even in my youth, when a “scrap” was seen as a rite of passage, I did my level best to avoid [more…]

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