I know this subject seems miles away from my normal area of expertise, but please have a look & let me know what you think. I am so sickened by the whole Royal Bank of Scotland bonus debate. It is a small, almost irrelevant, part of a much larger and infinitely more important question which [...]
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STEPHEN HESTER – An Alternative View
Posted in Food, Borough Market, Northfield Farm, Restaurant, Recession, Food Writing, tagged Conservative, Stephen Hester, Royal Bank of Scotland, Hester, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, London, Investment Banks, Credit Suisse First Boston, Financial Times, Bonus, RBS, Nomura, Recession on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Delivering Piglets
Posted in Air Ambulance, Beekeeping, Borough Market, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Christmas, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Classic Cars, Food, Food & Farming, Food Writing, Honey, Meat, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Motor Bikes, Northfield Farm, Pies, piglets, Rare Breed Pigs, Recession, Restaurant, Traceability, tagged baby pigs on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry if this is a bit long, but I hope it puts the reader right into the straw with me & shares the gore & the glory of the experience. I got back to the farm from a night away and went straight to check our first British Lop Sow Sally. She had seven [...]
And thegirls are still smoking
Posted in Air Ambulance, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Budget, Christmas, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Food, Food & Farming, Honey, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Motor Bikes, Northfield Farm, Pies, piglets, Rare Breed Pigs, Recession, Restaurant on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote this in early 2009. I was driving over London Bridge on my way to Borough Market. The financial world was dancing on its head. The Borough Market management seemed to be living on a different planet from normal mortals and the future looked very uncertain indeed. The sun was shining brightly and as [...]
Posh Birds
Posted in Air Ambulance, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Budget, Christmas, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Classic Cars, Food, Food & Farming, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Motor Bikes, Northfield Farm, Pies, piglets, Rare Breed Pigs, Recession, Restaurant on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote this two years ago as the realisation of a real modern recession began to set in. It is a measure of something that little has changed. The Posh, well reared birds still seem to selling, so not too much has changed there, but the economy seems to be as uncertain as ever. [...]
Diary of a Restaurateur
Posted in Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Christmas, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Food, Food & Farming, Northfield Farm, Rare Breed Pigs, Restaurant, tagged Restaurant on December 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Funny old game this. Last night, Saturday, we were empty. Not one single diner. Chef, me and one other, candles lit, gas and lights burning, logs on the fire and the central heating boiler fighting to repel the cold wind attempting to break in. Today, Sunday, we were almost full with a combination of booked [...]
DIARY OF A RESTAURATEUR
Posted in Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Christmas, Food, Food & Farming on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There is a well-known maxim in retailing that ‘The Customer Is Always Right’. I have applied it to the best of my ability in my fifteen years or so of running my Northfield Farm Shop and Markets business. I discovered recently that this is not necessarily the case in the restaurant trade. Our chef had [...]
Northfield Farm-So Much Going On
Posted in Air Ambulance, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Classic Cars, Food, Food & Farming, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Motor Bikes, Pies, piglets, Rare Breed Pigs on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My previous ramblings and the feature on Great British Food Revival on BBC2 brought many of you to our Farm Shop and new Gastro Tea Room. Despite tough economic times, it seems clear that people still have an appetite for great food and especially the great value on offer in our Gastro Tea Room. Local [...]
Real vs Spam Comments
Posted in Air Ambulance, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Classic Cars, Food, Food & Farming, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Motor Bikes, Pies, piglets, Rare Breed Pigs on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Took a little time to review a handful of seemingly intereted and complimentary comments on my blog. Thought it would be interesting to see who was writing such nice things. Found most of them to be SPAM, mainly from the US. Brickmakers, Life Coaches, Purveyors of Pornography, Basketball and other salespeople all wrote positive things, [...]
Northfield Farm Classic Cars
Posted in Air Ambulance, Beekeeping, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Classic Cars, Food, Food & Farming, Honey, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Motor Bikes, Pies, piglets, Rare Breed Pigs on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday (Sunday 11th July) was our 2nd car meet. With so much going on, from Grand Prix to World Cup, There were fewer cars than last time. The cars were amazing though, from the Morris Minor which arrived first through to the immaculate TR7 which arrived just as a stunning TR6 was leaving. During the [...]
LETTER FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY Self-Reliance
Posted in Air Ambulance, Beekeeping, Borough Market, British Lop Pigs, Budget, Food, Food & Farming, Honey, Melton Mowbray Pork Pies on July 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
One of the greatest examples of self-reliance is the network of Air Ambulances, all entirely privately funded. As such there is, hopefully, no scope for them to be directly hit by these cutbacks. They will need support as much as ever though.
