I've been linked to by The Times. Welcome to all the visitors who have reached this site from the article. Don't forget to bookmark the homepage so you can come back, or subscribe to the feed by clicking on the "Subscribe to bean-sprouts by Email" link on the right. And please do vote in the poll (on the right), leave comments (click the "8 comments" links at the bottom of the articles) and generally get involved. This is supposed to be an interactive blog, not just me pontificating about compost or whatever.If I'd known I'd be linked to by a national newspaper I would have cleaned my kitchen bin before I took a photo of it. And I wouldn't have followed that up with a stupid picture of myself in a silly hat. Oh well.
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Coming up in the next few weeks will be a review of our progress towards self-sufficiency in 2006, some earth-friendly New Year's resolutions for 2007, an interview with a good friend of bean-sprouts who has done what we dream of doing, i.e. buying some land and living as self-sufficiently as possible, and more details of our quest for the good life.
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So you're famous now then! Huzzah and congratulations ;-)
I'd blame the woolly hat!
By strange coincidence, I had the BBC on the phone just after lunch wanting to do an interview about the rantings on my blog.
I was in the middle of baking, keeping a small boy entertained, awaiting the delivery of the second boy on the school bus and keeping an eye on the Other Half (off sick today). So, I said "no thanks, too busy now but feel free to call back".
The BBC chap said it how to be now or not at all. Fine, said I, not at all, bye.
It's strange how some people in the media think everything has to happen when they want it to happen. Real life's not like that.
Anyway, congratulations, and two questions...
When can we expect to see you on "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here", and what's your taste in bugs? :D
Oi, tell them I asked you for an interview first. Does that mean I can call mine an "exclusive"?
You're serious, they phoned you to ask what it's like being a crofter and they couldn't handle it when you said "Not now, I'm busy"?
Why am I not surprised? I think there's a tendency for media types to think that everybody is in some way fictional - something that can be stopped and posed in the same way a fashion model can. "That's it, Sir Hugh, pick the orphan up. Can you cuddle him, sir? Hold it... oh Simon, can we have more dirt on the orphan's face please?"
Anyhoo well done Mel, fab job even with an Ikea bin. I see the top broke off yours as well. Shame on you Mr Ikea!
You can call it a "global exclusive", if you like.
And yes, I'm serious. He didn't like it when I said I was busy.
But even more strangely, Dibnah was also contacted by the press yesterday - in his case to be interviewed about cider.
We're being watched!!
Steven Spielberg contacted me today asking if I wanted to be in Jaws 6 where a shark takes a job in an orchard and ruins that years cider crop. They wanted me to play an apple.
I'm still thinking about it
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