The wrong time of year
It might read as a little perverse, given that I cannot give a lengthy context to this statement, but I am of the opinion that I’d feel a little better about what is referred to as an economic downturn or second Great Depression, depending upon who you speak to and what newspaper you read, if we weren’t in October but instead found ourselves in the midst of all this doom talk at the very start of spring.
Of course the prospect of dole queues many miles long and everything being priced beyond any degree of affordability is scary whatever season we find ourselves in, but at least folks in places like New Zealand can start right now to plant vegetables or expand their already established plots. For us Brits, October is a time when we’re mostly pulling up the last remnants of whatever we’ve grown this year, assuming we grew anything at all, which most still refuse to contemplate ever doing.
tags: credit crunch, food crisis, home farmer, vegetablesBrrr! A wet July makes you want to cry!
It seems likely that this summer in Britain will be as big a washout as the last, with what I’ve been calling the ‘British Monsoon’ season well underway. Rain, rain, and more rain, with the occasional hefty dose of thunder and lightning as well. Can it be any more depressing?
With the whole world talking about the food crisis, even if talking is all we can expect from our political leaders, it’s likely that British farmers and growers of produce in their own back gardens are all going to suffer losses, as many vegetables don’t react well to being drowned, particularly root crops. What’s more, it’s next year that the real impact of this year will be felt.
tags: climate change, depression, food crisis, rain, sunshine, waste, weather
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