Global Warming

There are some things which you could not make up even if you tried really really hard. In particular the Marco Pierre White Landrover Hamper (look for it at www.landrover.com if you don't believe me) Marco apparently said
"I wanted to create a picnic hamper with some the world´s finest ingredients to reflect the global and adventurous spirit I associate with driving a Land Rover" I would have been happier if this was some kind of take on the weekly column in one of the old Landrover magazines (sorry can't remember which one) that gave a recipe of the week for cooking on the exhaust manifold of a Series III - basically wrap stuff up in a few layers of tinfoil and drive the required distance until your sausages and beans were sufficiently heated and impregnated with a fine misting of oil from the leaky gaskets...but instead it appears to be poncy (and expensive) ingredients in a wickerwork basket with poncy (and again expensive) picnic accessories. Not the packet of hot sandwiches that you forgot you'd put on top of the transmission tunnel and a transmogrified penguin biscuit subjected to the same all-consuming heat that I associate with the global adventure of piloting my old series III across the Yorkshire Dales - Sandwiches get forgotten elsewhere in the Defender I now drive.