Growing Things and Making Things

When putting away cutlery in the kitchen, it's dangerous to turn my back on the open cutlery drawer. This tends to happen:

Thanks to months of neglect, the path from our front door towards the road has become very overgrown. This is only a problem because that ma...

Having got out of the habit of blogging frequently, I'm finding it hard to get back to it. I have ideas that I want to write about, but ...

As I started typing this post the sun came out and shone in through the window*. This feels like a rare treat and I'm tempted to jump up...

We have a couple of demijohns of elderberry wine bubbling away noisily in the sitting room. They were in the kitchen, but that's next to...

We had cold weather very late this spring, which caught a lot of gardeners out, then a cool, damp summer, which led some gardeners to give u...

A discussion on a facebook foraging group the other day has prompted me to write about something that I've been thinking about for some ...

Today marks the fifth anniversary of us buying our house here. I was going to write a post about what I've learnt over the last five yea...

I'm not doing very well with regular blog posts this year, so here's a bit of a catch up on some things I've left hanging. Sola...

Four years ago, after taking a spinning class, I wrote , I very much enjoyed the class and think this is something I'd like to do more o...