Good Local Economics
As legend has it the 11th century English/Danish monarch Cnut the Great (aka King Canute) placed his throne at the edge of the shoreline and commanded the sea to halt its tidal wanings to spare himself from wet feet. The sea continued unabated and ultimately Cnut found himself washed over by the ocean. He is said to have jumped back from the icy waters exclaiming ‘Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws.’
I make no secret of the fact that I am at heart a farmer boy. At 14 I was driving tractors, milking cows and generally making myself useful on the farm. My father was a bank manager, so the farm on which I worked at weekends and school holidays was not my own. That said I did marry the farmer’s daughter a number of years later!
