economy

Standing on the dark slate tomb of some long-forgotten eighteenth-century family, (children dead in infancy, parents living no more than 30 or 40 years), our bright red and stainless steel community apple press looked, even to us, a little…well…."incongruous”.

The only real experience I have of a life without money came I was quite young.  My father was a war pensioner and as a family we lived in the expectation of the “20^th” of the month when the brown envelope came, addressed to Captain Marriott.

A quick scan of this morning’s Guardian:  Osborne’s austerity plan still failing spectacularly, youth unemployment hits one million, British manufacturing has shrunk by two thirds in 30 years.  I’m reminded of an old political slogan: