Growing Things and Making Things

I'll be away from the internet for a week or so, but I'll leave you with some pictures of spring flowers, taken about a week ago. ...

If you're going to cut down trees, now is the time to do it, before the sap starts rising (so that the tree fights back) and the before ...

We're having a family party here at Easter, and a couple of weeks ago I was idly thinking about what I might serve for lunch, French bre...

I use tallow (beef fat*) for chips, because I think it gives the best flavour. The first time I made a big batch of chips I bought some fatt...

When Hazel mentioned navelwort on my previous post, I'd never heard of it, still less knew how to find it. When I followed her link to s...

In spite of the mild winter, spring seems to be a little later this year than last. This time last year I was harvesting ground elder and n...

The wood store we bought a year ago is too small for a full load of fire wood, so we've moved it upstairs* to the patio, right next to ...

It's been over a year since I last used shampoo on my hair. I won't say since I stopped washing it, because I still do wash it, but ...

I stored our potatoes in sacks in the store room and they've kept reasonably well, except that the King Edwards started sprouting in mi...

As expected, it took us a while to get used to using the new heating. To start with, we treated the stove as we had an open grate - building...