The Queen

Ohhh I am sooooooooo chuffed that Helen Mirren won the best actress Oscar for The Queen, it is a fab film and I just love her she is brilliant. She looks fabulous for her age and the dresses she wore for the BAFTAs and the Oscars were stunning - Good on ya Nell!!

On a more sour note, I was just watching the news (can you tell I don't work on a Monday?) and it seems that more and more of our dairy farmers are going out of business because UK supermarkets are squeezing them on milk prices. I have to say this makes me very angry. We have all got used to paying less for our weekly shop but this has a detrimental effect on our farmers. Did you know for example that the "buy one get one free" offers you see are not being funded by our generous supermarkets? Oh no, many of them basically tell their supplies that they need twice as much for the same price, so next time you are in Tescos and see that they are discounting Veg for the health of the nation, they are probably squeezing a farmer.

The thing is, the "big boys" now make it sooooo easy for us to do all your shopping in one place that is has a knock on effect on small local businesses. I for one am not a fan of Tesco, the supermarkets are all as bad as one another but I really don't like the foothold and power they hold in this country

I could go on for ages on this one - like why do we "need" to buy Portuguese Strawberries in February -they taste of nothing and are addding to global warming with all those "food miles"

CRIKEY!!! Listen to me, I have turned into a "right on" hippy type, and I still can't be arsed to go anywhere than my local Sainsburys!

Rant over