Dreaganta Kainaat CDex-WDex
This little dog has some more letters after his name this week. On Sunday, he qualified WDex (working dog stake at championship level) at a working trial. We found the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Warmer Waters
Saturday was a beautiful, quite warm, still, end of November day. So, of course, I sent a message to my lovely friend Alfie …. did she fancy a swim …. […]
Apple Cake
An easy breakfast cake kind of based on a recipe from Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries. Despite making lots of juice we still have quite a few apples to get […]
A Most Beautiful Fence
I have a new-ish found love of all fencing and gates. What money we don’t fritter away on hurdles we seem to spend on fencing and gates. Our old willow […]
Nalli Gosht – Slow braised hoggat shank
Sunday’s cook ahead dinner was slow braised hoggat shanks in a saffron sauce from the multi-contributor Curry. It was really delicious, I think next time I might add a little […]
Garlic and Onion Planting
On Saturday I cleared out the dead squash plants from the hugelkultur, turned the earth over a little and planted a lot of garlic and 200 onions. For the record […]
Hot Fermented Chilli Sauce
I made some shockingly red, very hot, fermented chilli sauce from my ring of fire chillis. This year I grew some of the plants from saved seed and from my […]
Samuel
This is Samuel and he has come to visit the ewes. I think he is quite happy about it. In previous years we have borrowed the 4-horned Benjamin, but this […]
Mutton and Pork Chilli
I made a big batch of mutton and pork chilli last weekend to have with the tomatillo salsa. I liked it a lot which is convenient as we have quite […]
And Then There Were Two..
I am getting a new puppy. I am going to collect him in a week and a half or so. He is in the basket above – can you guess […]
