Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Trifurcated Parsnip.....yummy!

This is the last of our parsnip crop from Plot#12. It's a rather odd shape. The cause of the bi- or even tri-furcation is when the growing root meets an obstruction in the soil. It is usually a stone that... Read more →

Damian Green- the allegation is nothing about disclosure. It's the conspiracy stupid.

A couple of day ago Professor Alan Boyle from Edinburgh University Law School contributed to the Damian Green debate with a letter to the Guardian. This is the second paragraph. In its modern conception, "freedom of speech" includes the freedom... Read more →

The Brainless Three

Speaker Martin Jill Pay Andrew "Duffer" MacKay What has astounded me more than anything about the self serving nonsense that passed for the Speakers' statement in the Commons yesterday, was just how ignorant many of LEGISLATORS are in matters of... Read more →

Brush up Your Shakespeare....!

There are some truly wonderful rhymes here. Music and lyrics Cole Porter Read more →