I am trying to think what is the difference between being angry and being furious..
At the moment I am neither of these two.
It is a pleasant Monday morning and I have a pile of work waiting to be done.
There are though times and sometimes quite often when I feel angry like when I bought Garlic from the shopping centre and when I got home unpacking it I saw that it had been grown in China.  We grow it here, along with onions and this had come all the way from China. I took it back to the store and told them my thoughts
…and then there are the neighbour's cats who do their business in my garden.
Of course I can’t blame the cats but I do feel angry when  I am kneeling down clearing up that stinky stuff.
Furious that is what I am when I get blamed for something I haven’t done or said,
Like being called wicked which I am sure I am not

Oh well never mind, have a  comfortable day.

Doreen, Michael and I live in an area known as the fruit bowl of New Zealand, whatever gets put in the ground grows. We have a very large cannery here in Hastings where i live called Watties, who are owned by Heinz. nearly all of the fruit they put in cans comes from China as do many of the vegetables. Local growers can't compete with the prices offered by China, even allowing for the fact the product is transported thousands of miles by sea.

If the local cannery used local produce the price to the housewife would skyrocket and she would not be at all happy.

I too get angry when you go to the shop and all the fruit and veg is from Spain, Holland or Africa. You know it's in season here, so why are we importing it? There are plenty of people out of work. There's a job for them. I bet it's against their human right to make them work. Well there's my rant for the day – don't get me started.

I feel for you Doreen. Cat using your garden as a toilet. I don't have that problem here but where I lived before it was a nightmare. You could not dig or plant in the garden without having to wear gloves. The little blighters buried it everywhere. It does get on your nerves when you don't have a cat. I found black pepper worked. I would sprinkle it down wherever they were going and all around the border. They don't like it getting up their nose but it doesn't hurt them. The only pain is if it rains it washes it away and you need to put more down. If there's no rain you can do it once a week. The cat will start avoiding your garden and go somewhere that does not have pepper.

Sorry Me, I know you've probably gone but Watties do not ever import fresh fruit from China. They would be crazy to do so when they can get it canned in China. If this is the case then the label clearly shows 'Made in China'. Otherwise all local fruit & vegetables are used.

Which cannery is your son in law involved in?