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The Rookwood guide to culinary excellence

25th March 2025 Rookwood 1887 Comments

I don’t know what it is – genetics, environment or culture, but I have always enjoyed cooking and entertaining friends and family. There is nothing as pleasurable or important in my book as blessing guests [more…]

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A View From (Quite Close To) The Greenhouse; It’s All A Conspiracy…..Innit?

26th November 2024 Colin Cross 2351 Comments

Winter arrives in the Northern backwaters, with a short lived but fierce reminder that the weather, when it chooses, can be the boss of us all. Cue, then, the assorted fanatics, grifters, bought and paid [more…]

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Another View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse……How Corrupted?

12th November 2024 Colin Cross 1915 Comments

It goes without saying (but I’m going to repeat it anyway, for those tin-eared few at the back) that Labour won the election simply because the Tories had managed to make themselves un-electable and Reform, [more…]

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4th November 2024 Going Postal 2666 Comments

Well then, seems I’ve been pressured into writing this one as a result of a suggestion from a Puffiness (who shall remain nameless (Yes, I’m looking at you…)). Rather than celebrating the dreadful Americanism that [more…]

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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; Scales Of Justice….Innit?

22nd October 2024 Colin Cross 2211 Comments

It’s often quite surprising when you find something that you didn’t know was lost, as happened recently with this set of scales. I didn’t “rediscover” them myself, the buildings and maintenance department did, but we’re [more…]

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A View From Near The Greenhouse; A New Dawn…..Innit?

3rd September 2024 Colin Cross 1588 Comments

I thought I was under no illusion when I marked my “X” on my ballot paper back in July. Due to boundary changes I’ve ended up living in one of the safest constituencies in the [more…]

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A View From (The Shed Just By) The Greenhouse; Murder Most Foul

6th August 2024 Colin Cross 3220 Comments

Hello faithful reader! It’s that time of year again, when the whole community reaches a fever pitch of anticipation at the impending village show. Consequently, I’ve selected the onions, grown outside for the first time, [more…]

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A View From (Adjacent To) The Greenhouse; Rivers Of Blood….Innit?

23rd July 2024 Colin Cross 2805 Comments

It’s easy to get a little bit despondent, especially if you spend too much time focusing on the stories of doom and gloom that are drip fed to us, on a daily basis, by the [more…]

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A View From (Inside) The Greenhouse….That Was The Election That Was….

9th July 2024 Colin Cross 1990 Comments

There were times, six weeks or so ago, in the aftermath of the “flood” when I was tempted to germinate some more seed and try to start the pepper and chili plantation from scratch, even [more…]

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