The New Potting Shed
The New Potting Shed The new potting shed is superb, especially as all the materials were upcycled and the total cost of the [...]
Aunty Vicky’s Cheesecake
Aunty Vicky’s Cheesecake As children, my brother and I would sit in the back of the car, in the front passenger seat our [...]
Chicken Confusion
Chicken Confusion As you may know, I moved the chickens down to the bottom garden, and although I initially enclosed them, they have [...]
LIVE Cinema Season
LIVE Cinema Season We live in a remote area, and unless we want to drive around the hills, we need to take a [...]
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 [...]