The World has changed

So where to begin, there is good and bad news as always.  George Floyd killed by a white police officer.  The injustice has sparked race riots and protest all over America.  The television is lit up by marching protesters, fires and cars overturned, with a few peaceful people trying to stop this flow of anger.  Peace be with them and perhaps one day we will look on everyone as equal.

Our country has exploded outward after lockdown has been declared partly open, the great experiment begins.

Sometimes news only lights up the bad and violent, for instance my view of Turkey has always been somewhat clouded by the anti-Turkish news not only about its president but by the need of Turkey to join Europe, the Muslim influence, as in the black presence in America.  Then Nigel Slater comes along and with courtesy and gentle manners opens up  the country that is both kind and hardworking.  Food, that essential we must think about every day is his gift, a generous manner and a willingness to praise everything so different.

So does one good thing cancel another, not quite it just rights the world into a more navigable place.  The ceanothus's blueness is alive with little bumble bees their yellow pollen sacks full, and they are indeed nesting above in the old coke house, not far too fly then.  The blue of the ceanthus highlighting the colour of the roses and the mock orange's white flower is beginning to show.

Yesterday, I made an order to Holland and Barrett for dried fruit, one thing that seems to have dried up on the shelves. I eat dried fruit in lieu of chocolate trying to keep my weight down.  But some of it is for baking into a simple tea bread.  Notice that all their expensive Manuka honey is half price but went for Australian honey, even at half price Manuka is expensive.  Is it really a magic bullet of healthiness;)