SUBURBANISATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
By Alasdair Crosby ‘Excuse me, Sir, do you have a few minutes to take part in a survey?’ My home-spun advice: ‘If you see a man with a clipboard, looking for a passer-by to button-hole, look the other way. Engage your companion in deep conversation or find something of absorbing interest in an adjacent shop-window.’ […]
ON SAINTS, HUNTING, AND ALE
By Sebastian Morello Ever since the 1st Century Roman general St Eustace, while out hunting with his hounds, witnessed the miraculous vision of a great stag with a crucifix poised between its antlers, there has been a deep relationship between Europe’s religion and the pursuit of quarry. Indeed, six centuries later, the Duke of Aquitaine’s […]
JERSEY AGRICULTURE – ONWARDS AND UPWARDS?
The annual Farm Jersey conference took place at La Mare Estate on 10 November. The following speech by the retiring president of the Jersey Farmers Union Economic, Peter Le Maistre, was one of the opening addresses: When I spoke two years ago at the Farm Jersey conference for the very first time, it was a […]