Putting the spring into my gardening

Putting the spring into my gardening

It is a painful thwack to the head when the obvious hits me, especially when accompanied by that hateful know-it-all voice inside your head that says, “I told you so”.   Professionally I’d call this having ‘insight’ but since I’m...
Myths and finding the perfect cookie

Myths and finding the perfect cookie

Who’d have thought that the study of food would have such heavy weight academic pretensions? It’s been a sobering start to the latest unit in my course after being thrown knee deep in the Mythologies of 20th century French philosopher Barthes. His...