Egg Eaters
We have a problem – an epidemic of egg eating. Our hens are furiously eating their eggs. This is not good. We should have stopped it when it was one […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Slow cooked lemony courgettes
We have a lot of courgettes. I am not complaining as last year we had hardly any. This is one day’s haul so we are having to get creative with […]
July Garden – the Greenhouses
No time for words today, just some of what I have growing in my chaotic, overgrown greenhouses and cold frames. Many, many cucumbers (yay) – busy eating them everyday and […]
Egg Collection
Some photos from Egg Collection on Saturday evening. At 6pm at weekends and usually everyday in the school holidays (depending on the weather and my non-campsite work schedule) I do […]
Gooseberry and Elderflower Pie
This pie is very very good. It is based on a recipe from Nigel Slater Tender vol. II and the best bit is that you reduce the lisquid that comes […]
Currant tart
It is currant season here and we have a lot of red currants. I saw a lovely looking currant tart on the amazing baking website run by Marc at Bake […]
Like a duck to water
We re-purposed some plastic bowl type thing whose original function has long since been forgotten into a duckling paddling pool. They loved it …… they really really love it. Every […]
Turkey Removals
We have a lot of turkeys in our front garden – 21 to be exact. With the Ixworth chicks we hatched growing by the day and the new ducklings it […]
Bedruthan Steps
We visited the Bedruthan Steps – a beach near-ish where we were staying one day. When the tide is low you can walk round all the giant stones on the […]
Sheepdog on Holiday
We’re in Cornwall for a week and it is wonderful. We are staying in the middle of nowhere. The road outside our cottage has grass growing in the middle of […]
