My Carbon footprint

These are from the vine on our patio. It shows you can grow grapes at
54 degrees north. Unfortunately they are not good to eat or for making 
wine. The Blackbirds enjoy them. But the vine gives good shade for sitting out in the 
Summer sun.

I am blipping them as an excuse to write about a television programme which we watched
yesterday evening. It was originally broadcast several months ago but if you are interested you 
can easily find it on BBC iPlayer. It is in the Horizon series and is called Feast to save the Planet.
 
Five innocent people are invited to a dinner party in a restaurant. The Carbon footprint of all the dishes
they choose from the Menu is carefully calculated.

It was very enlightening and may make people think twice about what they eat. There were several surprises.
It is O.K. to drink wine from Australia as the carbon footprint of ocean transport is very low. The wine comes in 
huge plastic bags and is bottled in this country so you are not transporting heavy glass.  But the footprint of flying grapes
from California or Asparagus from South America is sky high.  And you might think twice about the environmental 
effect of eating a large Tbone steak.

There are those who may think this is a lot of nonsense. But Mrs. K. And I are not among them.