Off to ‘university’
We don’t use euphemisms for when our animals go to the abattoir, but then someone mentioned that they tell their pigs and sheep that they are going ‘off to university’ […]
We don’t use euphemisms for when our animals go to the abattoir, but then someone mentioned that they tell their pigs and sheep that they are going ‘off to university’ […]
We eat a lot of this. It is especially good with mangetout and right now we have a lot of mangetout. The recipe is a version of one in Ottolenghi […]
Harold, James’ step-dad, stayed with us for an extra two and a half weeks to finish tiling the toilet block. He and Kathy had already renovated the food truck – […]
I had my beloved Daisy Dog put to sleep today. She was only just 5 – her birthday was June 1st. Two months […]
My lovely friends Christine and Nathan said that I needed to sort out our vegetable growing on the smallholding – no goats until the vegetables had had some attention – […]
We make a lot of chutney – it uses the same basic recipe inspired by a River Cottage recipe, but we change the base ingredients depending on what is available. […]
I have planted a three sisters garden which is a form of companion planting – see here. A month or so ago a friend from bee club mentioned planting beans, […]
This is a baby pear. It doesn’t look as if we will have many pears this year as only one tree actually has fruit on it and it only has […]
We have been mainly eating lettuce (and chard). The lettuce has done very well. Juliet gave me lots of little lettuce seedlings (Webbs Wonderful) and I planted them in the […]
Christine and Nathan (my lovely friends from London with the award-winning allotment) met me at the station a couple of weeks ago and gave me all these amazing plants: two […]