Today cycled to Mablethorpe for a paper4miles in total,then up Stain Lane for eggs another 8 miles and all on a non healthy diet, the bloke at the farm turned out to be a top notch Photographer,he showed me some of his stuff and it was impressive,another case of wasted working class talent,earning a living takes priority,if he was middle or upper class he would be able to pursue his true vocation with help from family and contacts.
I have made a start on building a chicken hut,but re using old timber is slowing me down,last night was the fish supper I think the cod must be organic because it' s from the north sea,but dont know about the taters.we were on a table with Madame and Monseur Boffin,who are convivial company and do like a drop of le vin,sadly we were not too successful with the quiz which was all about tv programmes which we sadly were not great afficionado's of.
Now to business re healthy eating,Montana Mike is unrelenting in his attempts to indoctrinate us,but does not practice what he preaches,biscuits , buns, chocolate etc.. all part of his diet,and to answer his claim that he only has an achilles problem because of surgery,why did he need surgery in the first place,with such a healthy diet it should not have been necessary.
The 94 year old bloke he holds up as a role model,makes lots of claims but who is to say he is not making it up? my grandmother Agnes Jeffrey who lived to be 93 ,never saw a doctor ,had no teeth,not even false teeth ,and could chew an apple with her gums, had a diet of offal ,pork(which she reared and killed herself) butter , cheese,ice cream ,cakes, and was an authority on herbal remedies,having a large collection of herbs in her house,which she collected herself,and was what we would call fat,on top of which she was a female pugilist of some notoriety in our village,and loved to slosh iodine on any cuts we suffered as kids,result of which was akin to nettle stings.
Another relative, my mothers sister Rose Wilks,died aged 93,after a life of hard work,smoked 60 players weights a day and could drink guinness faster than the speed of sound,many times we enjoyed a few in "The Goat" pub in enfield town,when I took paintings down to London for exhibition at Treadwell Gallery.
To quote one of my favourite poets Dylan Thomas"as we were young and easy,under the apple boughs"or in our case inside the pub door.
No doubt Montana will continue remorselessly with his religious like attempts to convert the non believers in cattle food cuisine,but evidence is not of a convincing nature.
3 comments:
Graham, there are always the exceptions to the rule. For every grandmother Agnes Jeffrey, there are hundreds of others who die prematurely of heart attack, diabetes, strokes, cancer or who are kept alive in poor state, by medication.
Plus, the Agnes Jeffery generation didn't eat processed food. There weren't many fat people in those days and dinner was always from fresh meat and veg.
there weren't many fat people because there was a war on,and food of any kind was severely rationed,I have a photo of my mother and my dads sister taken in 1945,and they both look as if they were recently released from a nazi concentration camp,they were malnourished and emaciated looking.
much adulterated foodstuff was sold to the public even then,and ration coupons were the order of the day.
Graham, I remember iodine also. It was red and applied with sort of a dropper. Don't know if the drug stores still sell it, haven't thought of it for years. Anyway, it healed many of my wounds. It's been funny, Mike's been telling you of our bike rides. He's been trying to teach me how to stop and start properly, how to turn corners properly. He forgets that I rode bikes all my youth also, in fact, had a paper route every night after school for 5 years where I had to stop and start at every house because we couldn't throw the paper at the house, we had to take it up to the door and place it safely from the wind. So, I probably did a million stops and starts. It'll all come back to me in time.
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