Roast Dinner
Roast Dinner Sundays at home always includes a roast dinner. Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots and beans or spinach. My husband’s [...]
Escargot Hatchlings
Escargot Hatchlings I was out paddling a canoe last week and was delighted to feel the warmth of the sun on my face. [...]
Bedtime Reading
Bedtime Reading With the advent of Smartphones, my bedtime reading routine has dramatically changed, gone are the nights of guilty reading with the [...]
The Potting Shed
The Potting Shed Now the chicken coup has been moved and the chickens are settling in. I have an area of ground already [...]
Walnut and Fig Loaf
Walnut and Fig Loaf A couple of years ago I came across this recipe on the back of the Allinson Country Grain Flour [...]
The Chicken Move
The Chicken Move Our little chickens are free rangers and despite onerous warnings from Monty Donn they have not decimated the garden. Plants [...]
Blairmore Gallery Opening
Blairmore Gallery Opening Fantastic news for the local community to have the gallery opening again. It should be a fabulous evening and I’m [...]
The Glorious Apple Muffin
The Glorious Apple Muffin Years ago I discovered an apple muffin recipe. It was not bad. The evolution of The Glorious Apple Muffin [...]
Cluck and the Chicken Crew
Cluck and the Chicken Crew When my lifestyle changed for the better, I had dreams of having a smallholding. I saw myself dressed [...]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow From time to time I tweet about a piece of poetry which has caught my imagination. We all have our favourites [...]