The bid to secure ‘Traditional Status Guaranteed’ EU status rumbles on with the documentary evidence of the minimum 30 year origin rule now satisfied courtesy of the ‘Balsall Heathan’ magazine. Next up is another visit from DEFRA … a genuinely helpful bunch but not helped by the pernickety Eurocrats. Apparently, a number of previous attempts by British producers for EU status have failed with the applicants giving up the ghost after many years of trying … however, we press on. I suppose it’s typical and perhaps, I should write to Nigel Farage … or there again, perhaps not.