Just what we needed

The world's poshest farm shop

The planet can now breathe easier.

Even though most farm shops hereabouts are usually on the farm, though to be fair they don't provide too many yoga mats. I'd drive to London to get mine but unlike the clientele above, would probably need a C-charge sticker for my 4x4, if I could afford one.

Are JCB's exempt?

I have a dream...

Sometimes you do feel rotten for pricking a lovely bubble: Take to the fields

His warning is fair. His ideas noble. But I do feel it rather ignores, like so many do, some practical issues.

"I've often thought the purest form of career is to till one's own fields and be totally self-sufficient. It all goes a bit pear-shaped when the kids want power for the X-box and granny gets cholera from the well being sited downstream of the dunny, but there is a buried yearning for how it once was before money and trade.

Now, if we can just get those self-same, curiously-busy-in-even-more-curious (and some might say even trivial, in the great scheme of things) directions governments to just sort out that pesky expanding global population thing at the same time as getting back to basics on sources of food, we'd be much better off.

So I'd really rather we were a bit more cautious about substituting biofourstar for spuds quite yet."