Almost forgot...

I'm an occassional Waitrose shopper as bizarrely its my nearest accessible shop -a dreadful place to go for a pint of milk - too much temptation. Plus on balance I think they are reasonably ethical. However, I was most amazed last night to see they offered slicing tomatoes - at only 3 times the price of ordinary tomatoes.

Perhaps that's where I'd been going wrong all this time - trying to slice tomatoes not destined for that fate...