Like I've told you before.

  My spies tell me the fruit giveaway has been going on for a while. (Thanks for the info, much appreciated.) Always nice to hear the supermarkets are doing their bit. Anyway, I'm off the Isle of wight and back in rain swept Hackney. How would I describe it? It's not quite, 'The bland that time forgot'. More like, 'The land that time forgot that time forgot'. In need of a lot less chintz and a damn good spruce.

​​​​​​​  However, we had some lovely hosts and had the chance to make their acquaintance properly yesterday. They were quite a revelation and prompted all sorts of issues some of which I'll touch on now. Firstly, they are both in their eighth decade and are in amazing shape. Their secret? Freshly cooked food made with proper ingredients, many of which are grown in their garden. Not too much meat and plenty of pulses. They stay fit and active. I'd love you to meet them as they are a great advert for so many of the recommendations I make. Blimey, I must sound like such a bore at times.

Cons-piracy

  They have kids and grand kids and even though they live on an island stuck in slow paced eighteen fifty four, we still agreed on the terrible trend that seems to be worming its way into so many lives. That trend being the demise of cooking and, (beware, conspiracy theory approaching), the systematic undermining of the joy of cooking by the faud industry.

  The way these fuckers convince us to buy their convenient, ready meals is by suggesting that the default position that 'everyone' has is that cooking is hard work, a chore, boring, time consuming etc etc. What if instead of that being true, it was a fabrication designed to confuse us into buying their shite? Well it would mean something else must be the truth.

  Far be it for me to suggest that it could mean that cooking was fun, healthier, creative, relaxing or anything else that would entice more people to get involved more often. It might even be the sort of activity that people would be keen to get their kids involved in, especially if they wanted their kids to experience cooking in a different way than a bunch of marketing executives were suggesting. So, your homework is to ask yourself where you got your attitude to cooking, no matter what that attitude is.

Kirk out

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