Morrisons were selling alien courgettes when I was so overwhelmed by my own in my garden that the compost heap was the main beneficiary. I can buy a pound of tasteless New Zealand apples in Cornwall that have been chemical-sprayed twenty times, cold-stored for weeks or months and air-freighted half way round the world - for a quid. It costs me twice as much to send a birthday card to my nephew in the opposite direction!

I've completely changed my mind about the only way to save the planet. Nuclear energy (there, that's nearly all my friends gone...). We have shown that we can't reduce emissions and you can bugger off with your wind turbines all over Cornwall whose main purpose is to line the pockets of big landowners who already have too much money and to keep the air-conditioning running in badly-designed buildings in big cities.