Category Archives: Darby End

A Matter of Life and Death

It’s a matter of life and death. Whether or not a cancer is detected quickly enough. Whether or not an ambulance arrives quickly enough after a heart attack. Whether or not a family has a mosquito net and knows how to use it. Whether a child has had their Polio vaccine. Whether or not a […]

July 2, 2014 – 1:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Darby End, Netherton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Fruitful, Inviting, Growing

Who knows what this is? Yes, it’s a fig. Perhaps you might be more familiar with them in that classic English tea time treat – the fig roll. Has anyone here ever grown these things? I was going to say that I thought you had to grow them under glass in the UK, but a […]

March 4, 2013 – 11:50 am | By tim | Posted in Darby End | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)