Well, unfortunately my new 2008 turbo-charged creative regime has crashed on take-off...
I picked up a bug yesterday.
It's a sore throat/runny nose/watery eye/sneezing fits/generally "feeling a bit shit" combo.
I've done nothing of note since the symptons appeared and am just waiting patiently for it to go away.
Typical...
I watched Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's programme about intensive chicken production.
It's good to see that what goes on at these places is being subject to increasing scrutiny.
I reckon in a 100 years time, people will be stunned to comprehend the cruelty which we've allowed to go on in our quest for cheaper and cheaper mass-produced meat.
There were some comical moments though...
He was asking people at Tesco's if they'd taken advantage of the "2 chickens for a fiver" offer.
One women said yes, and informed HFS that she gave one of the two chickens to her dog.
At one point HFS as getting harangued by a bumptious lady along the lines of "it's ok for you to buy yer organic chicken but we can't afford it etc etc"...
In the words of St William of Connolly, "she was no stranger to a fish supper", and didn't give the impression of being under-nourished.
There was this "healthy" move by a lot of people away from red meat to fish and chicken.
It's bollocks of course.
The factory farmed chicken is full of fat you arses.
Judging by all the radio phone-ins going on, it's rather depressing that for a large percentage of the population, the cheapness justifies everything that goes on in the industry.
Unfortunately, HFS's programme is probably just preaching to the converted.
Talking of prices...I had a problem with my gas boiler...
A man came out to fix it...took him about 15 mins...
101 quid...bastard!
ouch!
I might be forced to get some cheap chickens from Tesco for tea.
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