Author Archives: Rhona

A fairly full Saturday at the festival. We began with a morning reading by Harry Clifton from his Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks – it was a set which included several lovely food poems and a gentle and intelligent humour; Imtiaz … Continue reading →

American poet Marie Howe thought it was pronounced Aydelburg, but as we all eventually learn it’s really Ohld-brah. The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival celebrates its 22nd birthday this year and – though like all arts organizations is struggling for survival in … Continue reading →

Spent yesterday morning in the shadow of Newton at the British Library’s Business & IP (intellectual property) centre, attending a workshop on search engine optimization. It was a fairly fleeting visit, not allowing time to go and breathe the studious … Continue reading →

Carrefour’s new “Reared without GMOs”* labelling gives its customers the option of knowing what they are eating. Carrefourgmo 251010 Cp Ogm En http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf

Around the corner from my hotel in Turin, there was a morning market in the square which had lots of to offer the food shopper, beyond all the designer knock-offs, budget tights and dodgy toiletries that seem to make up … Continue reading →