Growing Things and Making Things

Take several months of financial stress, add seasonal depression, responsibility for a big, stressful event, a period of intense uncertainty...

We went to visit Ian's parents in Devon last week, returning on Friday evening. Pebble greeted us at the door, had some dinner, then rac...

The thing I hate most about depression - apart from the sluggishness and not caring about anything - is that it makes me stupid. I can't...

This may make me sound a little odd, but I really like cabbage. Not when it's been boiled too long and served plain, a la school dinners...

With the rapidly shortening days around the equinox, my SAD hit me again. At least this year I noticed it quickly, instead of spending a mon...

Having dried some mushrooms to a crisp for storage... Jars of dried mushrooms. Ian says the chanterelles look like small, dried octopi ......

I spend quite a lot of my time pushing stewed fruit through a sieve, especially at this time of year, when there's so much fruit in the ...

At some point when I was looking the other way, my potatoes got blight. The dead stems of the King Edwards are there, in amongst the weeds,...

On the 'ish forum , we were discussing different kinds of yeast that can be used in brewing. Last year I used lager yeast (from a beer k...

Autumn arrived here last week. One day it was warm and sunny, the next there was a distinct chill in the air. We can't complain, because...