The youth of today

Our teenage daughter has gone to visit relatives in the UK.

Her host asked if she would like to choose some of her favorite supermarket food.

She said she likes boiled eggs for breakfast and her Aunt promptly picked up a box of

six eggs. "I can't eat THOSE" she said, "They are caged hens and I only eat eggs from hens reared in the open air".

Armed with wholemeal bread, free range eggs and organic salad she was taken home for her

Aunt to clear the fridge throwing in the general rubbish two plastic bottles. "Don't you recycle? followed

by a lengthy speech on lifespan of a plastic bottle and the manufacturing of fleece material.

Then the worst crime against the planet, disgraced Aunty 'filled' the kettle to make 'A' cup of tea, to which the energy

consumption and deposits in the water from continued boiling lecture followed!

We came to France for a more peaceful life and now have a bilingual 'eco-warrior' for a daughter.

It could be worse seeing the UK news is frightening but it shows the softly softly approach of care of the environment in

France rubs off without us realising!