On a rainy Saturday afternoon in May

Our vegetables turn heads, you see. Shopkeepers sneak a break from their rows of chocolate and crisps and cigarettes. Couples look up from their lunches and hurry outside, clutching half-eaten sandwiches. Fluorescent-jacketed workmen rest on their spades and rub dusty fingers across their eyes. There is envy, of course: ‘My artichoke took two years to [...]

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