Field Day

Just seen John Craven on Countryfile. Don't know what it is about him, but he annoys me. Maybe I haven't ever forgiven him for the time he and his cronies tried to move me on at the Royal Show, because they reckoned I was standing in the way of where they were trying to film.

And then there's Mariella Frostrup. She's annoyed me. She's even made me turn off the Sky coverage of Hay, as she's made me abandon listening to one of my once-favourite Radio shows, Open Book. Why does she insist on turning every interview - whoever the interviewee, whatever the subject - into an anti-man rant? I've even just emailed her to have a moan, but I'm not holding my breath for a reply.

Anyway, I digress. This is supposed to be a blog about country life. I'll be writing about poetry soon at this rate! 

On a more serious note, there's an interesting piece about food prices and conservation in today's Observer.

And how's this for an unfortunate irony. When I opened the Observer's website to find the article, having read it first in the paper, guess who was staring out at me from an advert on the top right hand side of the page. Yes, you guessed: Mariella Frostrup!