"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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In message , Mary Fisher
writes

I apologise, I've confused you with someone who's been complaining about
children's behaviour in supermarkets.

Wow! A gracious apology for a misunderstanding on Usenet? Surely some
mistake? Anyway, gracefully accepted.

I always apologise when I realise that I'm wrong.

Ill behaved children do annoy me, but mostly it's the "I wouldn't have
been allowed to do that" grump, and I think it's a case of the noticeable
minority. By the way, my wife has just read this thread and told me that I
come across as a Grumpy Old Man (I'm 32, but may have to confess to being
a GOM since early teens).

My husband has been the same. But I won't swap him.

... Perhaps there's a correlation between the parents who care
enough to buy their family decent food, and the parents who raise well
behaved kids?

I should think there's a lot in that. Also the fairly often reported
correlation between processed food and hyper-activity in children.

I'm not entirely convinced of the causal link there, but I think there's
enough evidence that we really need a proper double blind study.

I think there have been but I'm not going to start researching it now.

There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that kids fed a proper diet in schools
behave better. There's really no excuse for the crap that schools have
been feeding them, and if I did have kids, they'd be on lunchboxes or
would come home for lunch.

No, I don't have television and don't buy newspapers or general interest
magazines but I do read specialist magazines, one being published by The
Food Commission - I'm passionate about well produced good food. We buy our
meat from a daughter who has an organic farm with rare breed animals and
poultry

Excuse me while I envy.

There are plenty of outlets like that, you just have to do a bit of
research. Once the initial effort has been put into it it's easy - far more
pleasant than going to the supermarket

....

We get things like cleaning products from the supermarket, we only get
food when I've not had time to shop. We grow what makes sense on the space
we've got, mostly salad crops and posh spuds, with some tomatoes and soft
fruit.

Yes, I always also grow runner beans and courgettes, beetroot, chard. globe
artichoke and oh joy! my first asparagus seedlings are up. I'll have to live
another three years to enjoy it but it gives me something to aim for!

The silly thing is that I've alwys been too impatient to begin an asparagus
bed, with the wisdom of age I realise how much pleasure I've denied us!

Mary

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Steve Walker