140g icing sugar, sieved
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
250g butter, cut into small cubes
375g plain flour, sieved
To decorate
200g icing sugar, sieved
edible food colouring, optional
edible gold and silver balls
approx 2m thin ribbon cut into 10cm lengths … Continue Reading
By Debbie Yates
Wow! Another year of produce and now we are in what is probably our most productive phase of the year. Heaps of lettuces of all varieties; beans of all varieties; tomatoes of many varieties including both Greek and Italian. Keep a watch on the Larder at the Medical Centre.
Thanks to those who have dropped off seedlings. Thanks too, to those who have dropped of produce. Could we please ask that if you have excess produce that you take it directly to the Larder at the Medical Centre. It is heart breaking to arrive at the garden to find boxes of produce that has deteriorated in the wet weather that we have been having and is only fit for our compost…on the upside the compost loves it!
We have once again planted kumara: this year a slightly bigger patch has been lovely prepared by our “Kumara Queen”. We also have pre-emptive ‘rat catching’ plans for this year, so hopefully many more Kumara will find their way to the Larder. … Continue Reading
It’s either madness or genius for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to announce the world’s largest fossil fuel plastic polluter as its sponsor for Cop27.
Unless this is a spectacular stunt to foreshadow Coca-Cola’s commitment to eradicate the three million metric tons of plastic packaging it spews into our oceans or reduce its annual carbon footprint of 5.49 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions to become net positive, it must be a joke.
Surely the realisation we are living on borrowed time, and every gram of carbon and plastic making its way into our atmosphere and oceans is poison, has reached The Coca-Cola Company boardroom?
The world doesn’t need fizzy drinks, nevertheless we love them. We drink over 1.9 billion Coca-Cola company branded drinks a day. Why not make that a good thing? We’ll happily show them how it’s done – that’s what we do!
Cop invites sponsors who represent the best of business on climate change and the environment. “Leaders in their industry, driving positive change and innovation towards a lower carbon world.”
As recently as January 2020, Coca-Cola’s head of sustainability, Bea Perez, confirmed at Davos that the brand would not ditch single-use plastic bottles because people “still want them”.
From The Spinoff
Drivers must pay £12.50 per day if their vehicles do not meet requirements on cleaner emissions A £12.50 (aprox. $25.00) daily charge for polluting cars will be expanded across the whole of London next August to clean up toxic air in the capital’s outer boroughs. About five million more Londoners will breathe cleaner air under the move, which marks a dramatic expansion of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone.
First created in 2019, the ULEZ expanded to the city’s north and south circular roads last year. But among the estimated 4,000 premature deaths from air pollution in the capital each year, the highest numbers are all in ten outer London boroughs.
Drivers have to pay the charge if their vehicle is considered polluting enough to be non-compliant, which is based on different European emissions standards for petrol and diesel cars, vans and motorcycles. Typically, the charge applies to diesel cars older than 2015 and petrol models from before 2005.
The wider zone will be backed by a £110 million scrappage fund to help people switch to lower emission vehicles and what Khan said was the biggest expansion of bus routes in outer London’s history. Drivers in the outer boroughs will also be offered the option of a travelcard worth more than swapping a polluting vehicle for a cleaner one under the scrappage scheme.
Khan said he was driven by the need to tackle air pollution, climate change and congestion. The mayor said he had been “profoundly” influenced by Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, the mother of Ella, an asthmatic nine-year old whose death a coroner last year ruled was linked to the city’s toxic air.
The Times
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