This is a big park between our flat and the city center. I'm sure it has a name, but I don't know it yet.
I was actually looking for an organic deli I found on one of the websites we discovered in a chinese take-away place. Its low-tech, but extremely informative. It has list of places to shop for food and the locations of lcoal farmers' markets. On Tuesday of next week we are going to try organic veg delivery. It isn't more expensive than the supermarket and it requires neither the gas nor Jason's consternation with driving (at which he is excellent). I will let you know how it goes.
I am struck daily by the growing insistence on sustainability. (I learned about the Eden Project , built by Grimshaw, at a sustainability conference back in May...I'd like to visit) Interspersed in the media among all the stories about "Celebrity Big Brother" are stories about the harm Britain's dependence on air travel is doing to the environment or the number of large corporations that have pledged carbon neutrality in the coming years. Every morning show has a guest speaking on the benefits of locally grown produce. Even in the big supermarkets there are Union Jacks on UK products. It is clearly typed on the package that these mushrooms were grown in Somerset.
Incidentally, see then little green '5' in the corner? That is a label indicating the one serving of mushrooms fulfills one serving of the "five a day": servings of fruits and vegetabls one should get every day. The lentils I bought last week had a logo telling me they were good for the lower GI.
If we had slept at all last night I would have some lucid observation to make about this. When the constant Stomp-like banging of the pipes stops and the building next to us decides to open the windows when they cook instead of setting off the fire alarm from 7-9.30 pm I might have something to say that is pithier than- I think we are way behind.
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