As the world hovers between the manmade follies of nuclear threats from North Korea and Trump’s threats of “Fire and Fury”, the natural destructive forces of hurricane Irma and the genocidal actions of the Burmese military under the renegade leadership of the false saint Aung San Suu Kyi, I count my blessings as the rain descends on Bedfordshire and I follow a Huffington Post recipe for Sweet pickled cucumbers.  How crazy is that?