You know me, well at least a little...I知 an open-minded lady with a good dose of non-conformism.

I adore to be considered a little outrageous too; it痴 one of the few advantages of aging.
But there are a few things I知 very firm about and I prefer not to change.

One of them is mustard.

I occasionally try many different kinds of mustard, but I generally remain faithful to my favourite brand, definitely British!

We have to go back to 1814;in that year George III was on the throne and Wellington was preparing to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo...and one of my ancestors, Jillian Eunice Bear, was on very...uhm, familiar terms with a young flour miller, called Jeremiah Colman.

Jillian Bear had a solid business sense and she persuaded her friends to take over a mustard manufacturing business based on the river Tas, four miles south of Norwich.

They founded the new firm J & J Colman.

The partnership prospered and in 1836, a London branch was established.

Since then all the members of the Bear family have used only this brand of mustard for their daily cooking.

I don稚 claim it痴 the best one absolutely, but I think we have to be faithful to something that gives us points of reference.

By the way, I take advantage of my diary page today to tell a dear friend of mine that we have to trust the postal service despite all evidence to the contrary....