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A View (Literally) Through The Greenhouse: Storms (What Are They Good For?)

4th February 2025 Colin Cross 0

There has been much huffing, puffing and pearl clutching, from the usual suspects, where the subject of “interference” in politics is concerned. Whether it be financial (the hypocrisy runs deep in this particular river) or, [more…]

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(Not) A View From The Greenhouse; After The Goldrush. The End

21st January 2025 Colin Cross 0

I recently had the pleasure of visiting a hospital. Not an A&E, thankfully, but a famous hospital in the North West of England where I attended for a “pre-op” appointment. It’s an indictment, albeit a [more…]

Diary

A (Re)View From The Greenhouse; That Was The Year That Were

7th January 2025 Colin Cross 0

Winter arrives in the northern hinterlands, with something of a vengeance, but enough of my snow shovelling tales. The greenhouse has (so far) managed to withstand the foot or so of accumulated snow loading. Grounds [more…]

Diary

A View (Actually) From The Greenhouse….Everything Is Not As It Seems…

25th December 2024 Colin Cross 0

Like me, you’d have been saddened but unsurprised by the latest in a long line of cars, as if driven by some kind of divine hand, crashing into innocent people going about their ordinary, if [more…]

20th Century

A View From The Greenhouse…..Fixing The Foundations, To Build Back Better

10th December 2024 Colin Cross 0

On Sunday night just passed we were treated to the sight of upwards of 150 tractors, of varying shapes and sizes, convoying around the villages in this part of Cumbria be-decked in Christmas lights.  As [more…]

Cooking

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

26th November 2024 Colin Cross 0

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…]

Cooking

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

12th November 2024 Colin Cross 0

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…]

Authoritarianism

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

22nd October 2024 Colin Cross 0

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…]

Culture

A View From The Greenhouse, Edizione Apulia; Seconda Parte (All In It Together)

1st October 2024 Colin Cross 0

The hotel outside Matera is new and consequently very modern, the food in the restaurant was pretty good, but the waiting staff knew we were a tour party and treated us accordingly. Not rude, as [more…]

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