Image by Getty Images via Daylife I started the day greeting the dawn at home, in the garden, planting shallots. It’s traditional to plant them on the shortest day of the year and harvest them on the longest. Despite being generally an unconventional kind of person, eschewing tradition in favour of trying out the new, I decided to give it a go. After all, it’s probably good for the shallots. It will certainly help me to remember when they’re supposed to be ready for pulling up. Our foremothers and fathers had considerably more sense and practical knowledge than most of [...]