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 Animals have friendships just as humans do Mary and Hattie are a perfect example of this  Hattie , as you may remember is the young nurse who used to live in the village by the old post office. She energetically threw herself into every social activity going. Singing in the community choir, supporting the Women’s Institute and being one of the street wardens during covid as well as being my Church bell co ringer when people used to clap for nurses and every week she used to take Mary out for a long walk and a cuddle. Hattie and I at the Folk Weekend in the Hall During lockdown she and her boyfriend moved to the next village in a new build where they’ve had Baby Freya and her absence and cheerfulness has been greatly missed . Mary hasn’t seen her friend for a year now and went absolutely mental when Hattie leant over the kitchen wall yesterday afternoon to say hello. Very gently she sniffed at Freya and joyfully joined the family for a long walk, her tale wh...

A field of soya beans  There's a lot of unsubstantiated mythology surrounding soya bean production. Back in 1970, annual worldwide production was at 43.7 million tonnes. By 2018 that figure had risen dramatically  to 347.9 million tonnes per annum. Why? The myth makers and their adherents suggest that it's all down to plant-based diets and the growth in veganism and vegetarianism. However, this is nonsense. Careful analysis by Oxford University demonstrates that the huge growth in soy production is mostly down to the worldwide meat industry. 77% of all soy produced is used in animal feeds. Less than 7% of the soy we harvest goes into human foodstuffs such as tofu, tempeh and soya milk. Global meat production has tripled in the last fifty years and the acreage of land devoted to soya production has quadrupled. Hence, huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest are now being used for soya farming. It's all about keeping animals fed not about tofu in the supermarket. Sometime...

After All Tomorrow is another day…..  It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Trelawnyd .I’ve moved my little blue table into the front garden to get away from the yapping dogs in the new build and am enjoying Almond Coffee eggs, and hot hot buttered toast -  with my own butter. I’m ok .  Yesterday I bought a new lamp for the living room and in a fit of middle aged gay frenzy bought a whole set of plain black accessories for  the new bathroom which will be mostly white with black trim. I also bought a couple of zombie movies, one of which Infection wasn’t a half bad version even though it had been banned for showing in its native Venezuela. I binged the movies , ate sushi from the sushi shop outside chester and drank too much gin last night. Like I said, I’m ok .  I emailed my ex husband too and wished him and his fiancé well. The village is busy this morning. There is a coffee morning in the Hall and the shenanigans between the Community Council and the...