And on a more cheerful note

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We are trying to eat more veg. I gave up pork ages ago, a habit made more sustainable by visions of Mr Cameron's possible past, but it's hard to give up all meat, so we are trying to eat more veg, buy less meat and when we buy, try to buy cruelty free.

I would like to give up all meat. I haven't been right with it for a long time. In the search for more satisfying vegetarian meals, we watched an entire series of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall extemporising on the glory of greens and I have achieved four vegetarian meals, only one of which was a dud. It was the first, a vapid cauliflower and chickpea curry, apparently from a 'friend' of Hugh's. The others were rather tasty; one indian vegetable curry, one mushroom soup with dumplings, and one aubergine lasagne. Now I am about to embarge on a terrifying experiment. I am about to make some kind of elizabethan vegetable pie with grapes and eggs. I may be gone some time...