Waiting
A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]
A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]
Of course, she waited until just after I left before having her baby. I left this morning to go to London for an ultrasound and to stay the night at […]
Too much going on, writing, writing, writing and teaching…. too much to do and not enough time. This past week we have been mainly eating celeriac from the hugelkultur (and […]
On Monday our three Large Black/Middle White cross pigs went off to ‘university’. Never an easy day, but we now have a freezer full of free-range, rare-breed sausages and bacon […]
Yesterday was Sunday, so I imagine you can guess what was going on at our place. It was the turn of the young pekin ducks that we hatched out earlier […]
I can’t believe I am 46 (nearly 47) and I have only just made beyaz peynir (feta cheese). I have been wanting to make it for a while, but the […]
As I greedily eat our aubergines, I do have half an eye on next year. My seed saving experiments with chillis and borlotti beans worked well this year – the […]
My dog eats meat. The ducks had five years free-ranging in the pear garden. They had pretty much stopped laying eggs. We decided that a quick, quiet, unexpected death before […]
Everything is so fresh right now that it is nice to eat things as simply as possible. Pick and chop a cucumber, add a chopped heirloom tomato, some shredded basil […]
I have been waiting to make this for some time. First I had to grow the ducks and then the peas! I am still experimenting with my stove-top hot smoker […]