"I've seen how their relationship has grown, how it has matured but never staled," Robert J. Hughes, a friend ordained by the Universal Life Church, said as he led the ceremony.
Another plus is that you can enjoy experimenting with varieties of coffee — you can vary your brew according to where the coffee was grown, how it was picked and processed, how the beans were roasted, packed and ground.
The distance that food travels from farm to plate is certainly important, he says, but so is how food is packaged, how it is grown, how it is processed and how it is transported to market.
It's more natural to measure time by how long you've lived in the same apartment or worked at a job, how long a relationship has endured and how old the children have grown, how large the trees you planted years ago have gotten.
Being given instructions about animal husbandry, "and how our crops are grown, how we manage our woodland and do our ditches and do our hedges" may not be wholly congenial to this headstrong daughter of an Irish soldier and a British primary school teacher.
Dr Bernie Bulkin, former chair of the Office of Renewable Energy at DECC, said: "This is a careful piece of work that presents many different scenarios for how and where the biomass is grown, how it is transported to the UK, whether it is grown specially for this purpose or is waste, and so on.
