I have taken up a haphazard and frankly blasé approach to gardening.  Some people might scrunch their faces up at this. There are weeds.  Rogue poppy plants.  People asking me how we grow peonies*.  (*Answer: they were there when we bought the house. I kind of let them do their thing).  I employ Garden Darwinism.  If you’re …

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I’ve always been envious of cook-offs.  Chilli cook-offs and barbecue cook-offs.  You don’t see that in the UK. You don’t see the British people taking over a Sainsbury’s car park with their cars, open flames and tanks of calor gas.  You don’t hear shrieks of “OOOooowWeee! We’re cooking with GAS”.  With the obligatory cooler filled …

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