Rant of the day

SYCAMORE TREES Sycamore trees are really irritating. They are very thin and boring, and they sprout from their boles almost like shrubs. T...

DANISH AGRICULTURE (2) Denmark is very good at farming . But in today's world, even the best have problems to deal with. The big diffi...

HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA (4) The nine justices of the Supreme Court are this week hearing arguments in a case, which is without doubt the mos...

GOOD NEIGHBOURS A man in Holbæk has just shot dead his neighbour's 10-year old labrador dog, Balder. Balder had got out of the enclosu...

INFLUENCE PEDDLING The video revelations that foreign businessmen (or, indeed, anyone else) can get "face time" access to Prime ...

THE 2012 PROJECT (3) I got started on the 2012 Project today, pruning the fruit trees in the orchard. I was a bit late, I know; but they ...

MOLES AND MOWING A number of readers have asked me what has happened to the moles . I have been asking myself the same question, since the...