Caroline Stocks on the obvious combination of journalism, media and farming
I’ve been baking today. Did you know traditional Easter cakes were made with nearly a pound of chocolate, an entire block of butter and half a litre of cream? It was so rich I managed to defeat my Uncle Paul with a single slice. A miracle indeed. The sugar in it has left me so [...]
Admittedly this story doesn’t sound quite so lovely with the headline “LAMB DEATH MISS IS BACK” (the Mirror’s sub editors being as undramatic as ever there), but the story of a headteacher being reinstated after she resigned over the slaughter of a lamb raised by her pupils is rather cheering. Andrea Charman resigned earlier in [...]
A farming chum who was visiting Farmers Weekly Towers yesterday asked how I managed to get in the frame of mind to write anything in the office. I hadn’t really thought about it before, but I suppose the greyness and lack of natural light isn’t really conducive to creativity, is it? (The office isn’t really [...]
