Gooseberries
I hate picking gooseberries – their branches are covered with the most mean and vicious spikes. In my garden this isn’t helped by the fact that I have brambles and […]
I hate picking gooseberries – their branches are covered with the most mean and vicious spikes. In my garden this isn’t helped by the fact that I have brambles and […]
I went to visit my lovely friends Christine and Nathan at their allotment on Thursday. Christine can’t eat butter or sugar so I looked around for a suitable cake to […]
We have summer raspberries at the moment. We don’t have many vegetables as I was delayed planting due to the op but we have someĀ fruit (raspberries, strawberries and gooseberries […]
About two months ago I used the last of the stored apples and dried chillis to make another batch of Chilli and Apple jelly. I strain the juice and then […]
We have been putting the turkey chicks outside in good weather in a dog crate for a week or so. Yesterday we decided to let them loose in a specially […]
After dog class on Tuesday Margo gave us all some lovely veggies from her garden, namely mangetout, beetroot and lettuce. As my mangetout got completely eaten by the evil pigeons […]
Last weekend James and some other members of pig club built the pigs some sun shelters. We don’t have many trees on our smallholding (although we are engaged in an […]
The parents of the vets where James works keep Rheas and yesterday she very kindly gave us this rhea egg – how utterly fabulous is that? So the question is […]
I am in London for a couple of days – hospital and work – plus I have writing deadlines so today we have a guest post by Darwin one of […]
The one downside of having a campsite is that someone somewhere on the site is always cooking bacon. Bacon sandwiches are perfect camping food, but I guess it isn’t good […]