Five things

I have broken my (prescription) reading glasses.

Yesterday I visited the optician and picked out a frame (my only requirement is that the reading glasses be as different as possible to any other glasses I own, to minimise the risk of wearing the weong glasses) and in a week's time I will have new ones. With luck they will work even better than the old ones, since my prescription has changed quite a bit. Meanwhile, I am squinting at things with my nose to the paper.

We - unintentionally - dined on vegetarian haggis.

I had included haddis in my cheese order, since these are the people (or the successirs of the people) from whom I have long bought my haggis. The delivery note says "not vegetarian", but I can see how expressing it like that could lead to errors. The worst thing about it, though, was not that it was vegetarian byt that it was tinned; also in a plastic 'stomach' as a result of which the texture was completely wrong. Which was disappointing.

Other endangered foodstuffs:

A Guardian article discusses seven of the UK’s most endangered foods, of which we frequently eat two, saddleback pork and beremeal. The illustration shows something unlike any bere bannock I have ever met...

Not the finger in the ear show

In 1982 the EFDSS made a half hour programme in the BBC's Open Door slot, about why you might like folk music better than you expect (the defensive note is theirs).

Watch on YouTube

Some familiar faces and some unexpected fashion choices (Martin Simpson in a pink bow tie?)

One for my own benefit: Thank Goodness it's Folk

Sam Hindley and James Fagan on Sheffield Live - because I believe the latest show had lots of Les Barker, and I'd like to listen to it.