Saturday, July 28, 2007
Ecotwad
Connoisseurs of eco-twaddle will be pleased to hear that Cambridge now boasts a Waste Management Park, a little to the North of what used to be called the tip and which appears to be largely grassed over. The new park looks to be managed by a local builder and contains, amongst other waste management goodies, the contraption that turns your green waste into compost, yours for the collection. The compost has, I understand, been cooked to kill any small animals which may have found their way into it and is therefore a suitable medium for vegans to grow their mung beans in.
Paid a first visit to Hertford the other day to find it is a seriously old town with a lot of seriously old buildings. Not amongst these is the main church, rebuilt by the Victorians with not much more of the inside of the porch left over from the previous edition. It is built mainly in invisible brick, the brick being covered with dressed flint and masonry trim on the outside; white paint and masonry trim on the inside. Outside nothing special, still looking a bit new, but the inside was very suitably holy. Not a bad reproduction of an old church at all. Interesting chancel with lots of light. Blue domed roof with lots of stained glass windows and an interesting altar peice. All in all a good thing although I don't suppose there are enough customers these days for the size of the place. The land all these churches sit on would be worth a fortune if they were allowed to sell it for redevelopment: maybe they should given the shortage of land for same and then they could give the balance to some deserving cause. I think Catholic nuns are into downsizing for such purposes - and if they can do it I am sure it is not beyond the wit of the Church Commissioners to do the same.
Hertford also boasted what it claimed was the oldest purpose built Friends Meeting House and a rather run down Masons Hall. There was a also a good fish stall, it boasting an entire halibut about two foot long and a foot and a half deep. We bought three mackeral on the strength of their glitter despite the BH allegation that one does not buy mackeral in the summer. As it turned out they were good grilled. Samphire a rather too salty accompaniment. Today we will have a smoked haddock from the same source, with cabbage rather than Samphire. What with all the beans not had too much cabbage lately.
All this fish being intended to redress the balance of hot pork sandwiches earlier in the week. Nothing like just cooling pork in some fresh bread - both from Cheam naturally, the pork with a certificate assuring the reader that the pig had had a happy life, sealed by the mark of the happy pig itself. Hot pork sandwiches being followed up by cold pork sandwiches.
New model of senior moment yesterday. Put saucer on tea tray, made tea in the teapot in the usual way and then put the teapot in the saucer rather than the teacup.
Paid a first visit to Hertford the other day to find it is a seriously old town with a lot of seriously old buildings. Not amongst these is the main church, rebuilt by the Victorians with not much more of the inside of the porch left over from the previous edition. It is built mainly in invisible brick, the brick being covered with dressed flint and masonry trim on the outside; white paint and masonry trim on the inside. Outside nothing special, still looking a bit new, but the inside was very suitably holy. Not a bad reproduction of an old church at all. Interesting chancel with lots of light. Blue domed roof with lots of stained glass windows and an interesting altar peice. All in all a good thing although I don't suppose there are enough customers these days for the size of the place. The land all these churches sit on would be worth a fortune if they were allowed to sell it for redevelopment: maybe they should given the shortage of land for same and then they could give the balance to some deserving cause. I think Catholic nuns are into downsizing for such purposes - and if they can do it I am sure it is not beyond the wit of the Church Commissioners to do the same.
Hertford also boasted what it claimed was the oldest purpose built Friends Meeting House and a rather run down Masons Hall. There was a also a good fish stall, it boasting an entire halibut about two foot long and a foot and a half deep. We bought three mackeral on the strength of their glitter despite the BH allegation that one does not buy mackeral in the summer. As it turned out they were good grilled. Samphire a rather too salty accompaniment. Today we will have a smoked haddock from the same source, with cabbage rather than Samphire. What with all the beans not had too much cabbage lately.
All this fish being intended to redress the balance of hot pork sandwiches earlier in the week. Nothing like just cooling pork in some fresh bread - both from Cheam naturally, the pork with a certificate assuring the reader that the pig had had a happy life, sealed by the mark of the happy pig itself. Hot pork sandwiches being followed up by cold pork sandwiches.
New model of senior moment yesterday. Put saucer on tea tray, made tea in the teapot in the usual way and then put the teapot in the saucer rather than the teacup.
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