The healthy forager

Today we have lost one of the most remarkable people in modern history, our Queen Elizabeth II. She died here in Scotland, at her beloved Balmoral Estate.

To come here every year must have been such a tonic to her, away from the urban cage in London, to a place of natural beauty and freedom. Where she could be herself, go into the hills in normal clothes, tend her vegetables and get mud under her nails. Eat the wild bounty from the surrounding forests. Sit by a log fire at the end of the day with her cheeks glowing from outdoor happiness.

May she rest in peace.