There are lots of cows and sheep in the fields around Stratford. They stand there all day just eating and minding their own business. They never stray out of their fields and are not in any way a nuisance. (except that the cows generate huge amounts of Co2) Folk look at them and say how nice it is to see them happy in the fields. But these happy and inoffensive creatures are merely waiting in line to be slaughtered and then served up on our dinner tables.
I cannot see the logic of this. The birds, which are a nuisance, we are not allowed to kill, but it is perfectly OK to kill the harmless and rather friendly beasts in the fields. Madness.
I was walking the other day, when I felt something uncomfortable in my shoe. I couldn’t shake it free, so eventually had to stop. I took off my shoe and shook it. I put it back and continued on my way, but the irritation was still there. I took off my shoe once more, and then checked in my sock. I could feel something. After I’d removed my sock I discovered that what I had been walking on was a large couscous grain!
I wonder where this old lock came from? It turned up down in the cellar the other day.