The interview I did for Essentials magazine at the beginning of December has finally appeared in the new March issue. Hmm. OK.
I guess I should have expected words to be put in my mouth, but I feel it makes me look a bit stupid saying I go digging in the pouring rain
which of course I don't. And where I said, "I have sown a small patch of winter wheat in the hope that I can have a go at grinding my own flour to make bread. I couldn't possibly become self-sufficent in flour, but I want to try it out of interest. " it has appeared in the magazine as "[ I ] want to grow wheat so I can make my bread from scratch", which I feel gives the impression I think you can grow enough wheat on a couple of allotments to never have to buy flour again. I also feel that my efforts to put across the other ways of being self-sufficient (ish), like home-baking didn't come across hardly at all.
Perhaps I'm just feeling a bit critical and sensitive today. Other info like where I 'say' we haven't bought veg for six months is out of date now, as we have bought a couple of sacks of carrots and 3 sacks of spuds since then, but hey ho. On a postive note it also says
Check out Andy and Dave Hamilton's website (selfsufficientish.com), and his book The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible (£30, Hodder & Stoughton).
Always good to be given a plug, eh? Last I heard there was a shortage of the Ish Bible. Any news on another print run?
- anyway we can see it online?
