Covid And The Black Death
BY DAVID EYLES Now that Covid is receding as a threat, and a slow return to some sort of normality is returning, people are beginning to wonder about the medium and long-term future. Mostly, they are worried about their jobs and the economy. The media are full of speculation. I have not read The Guardian recently, but I imagine it to be twisting itself into … Continue reading Covid And The Black Death
For the Love of Creatures
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Last week I was driving down a steep hill on the motorway when something white on the lane inside caught my eye. At first it looked like a torn white plastic bag – the kind one gets from a kebab house or chippie. Then, as I got closer, I saw some cars in front swerving to avoid it. The true misery of … Continue reading For the Love of Creatures
Alice in Covid 19 Wonderland
THE CITY GRUMP With apologies to Lewis Carroll. An adaptation of his classic tale to suit our times. The Cast: Alice –The City Grump The White Rabbit – The Sage Committee The Cheshire Cat – Professor Chris Whitty The Mad Hatter – Boris The March Hare – Dominic Cummings The Dormouse – The British Public in Lockdown and onwards The Queen – Professor Neil Ferguson … Continue reading Alice in Covid 19 Wonderland
Stout Ice Cream
Ingredients: Stout Ice Cream 2 cups (a cup is 236.588 ml) heavy cream 6 egg yolks 1/2 cup (a cup is 128 g / 4.5 oz) sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 12 ounces stout beer Bittersweet Hot Fudge 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate (70 percent cacao), rough chopped 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream 3 tablespoons light corn syrup pinch sea salt Instructions: … Continue reading Stout Ice Cream
Europe’s Penultimate Dictator?
BY EFFIE DEANS Few people in Scotland probably know very much about Belarus, a small landlocked country of 9 million to the east of Poland. But then again, few people in Belarus know much more about Scotland than that men wear skirts, play bagpipes and imitate Scrooge McDuck. People in Belarus are frequently blissfully unaware of the parts of the United Kingdom. They describe the … Continue reading Europe’s Penultimate Dictator?
Prayer For Strength & Confidence
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and that Your families are healthy. For those of You pushed back into lockdown I do not know what to say. I feel for You. 2020 shall be a year that many wish to forget. For whatever You are planning when things get back to normal, You will need strength and confidence. … Continue reading Prayer For Strength & Confidence
Who Killed the Sea Eagle?
BY NIGEL BEAN & PAUL READ The second year in a row and we find a bird of prey conveniently turns up dead two weeks before the grouse shooting season starts on 12th August. Last year it was a Hen Harrier caught in a trap – an incident that appears to have been staged to catch the headlines; an incident carefully designed not only to … Continue reading Who Killed the Sea Eagle?
Should I Go To University, Dad?
BY FRANK HAVILAND Once the envy of the world, British Education has lost its way of late. While we still have world-class institutions, almost three quarters of Britain’s universities have slipped down the world rankings. This is not a coincidence. Education has been on the slide for decades now, something successive administrations have desperately tried to quell with soundbites. For John Major it was ‘back … Continue reading Should I Go To University, Dad?
Blowing Bubbles
THE CITY GRUMP Last week the Financial Times reported that Zoom now has the same market capitalisation as the combined market caps of Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Unicredit. The downward progress of the banks won’t come as much of a surprise to the City Grump who, in an article from 2011, warned investors never to go anywhere near bank stocks, and indeed airlines and textile … Continue reading Blowing Bubbles
Ware’s Almost Perfect Wisdom
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN While the highly respected journalist John Ware’s attack in the Jewish Chronicle on “deceitful propaganda” was a wholly merited blast at anti-Semitic Corbynite ideologues – the Lansmans, Mendozas and Rachels from Swindon of this world – John came up with some useful paragraphs for those running blogs and websites which by choice or nature are outwith the mainstream media and regulatory control: … Continue reading Ware’s Almost Perfect Wisdom
Svartafell
Ingredients: 50 ml. brennivin One egg white 30 ml. lemon juice 25 ml. raspberry syrup 15 ml. montenegro amaro 2 dashes rhubarb bitters (Fee Bros recommended) Dash of cream Instructions: To make it, you’ll add all of the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and first dry shake (without ice), before adding ice and shaking vigorously . Then, fine strain it into a chilled goblet … Continue reading Svartafell
Young Ladies of Uncertain Temperament
BY JIM WEBSTER When you work your way down the list of jobs you have to do on a busy dairy farm, you’ll notice that one that somehow has to get fitted in is ‘looking dairy heifers.’ As soon as there is grass and the heifers are old enough, I always tried to get them outside onto it. I could still give them some supplementary … Continue reading Young Ladies of Uncertain Temperament