Growing Things and Making Things

It's interesting looking back to see that I wasn't that taken with pickled samphire the first time I tried it . That was before I di...

Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh or in Welsh, Gŵyl Awst*, is a festival that hasn't been adopted into our modern calendar, though we do ...

A few weeks back, over on Eco Cat Lady's blog , we were chatting about how quite a few of us feel we ought to enjoy sewing, but don...

The title is supposed to refer to gardening, but it could just as well refer to the blog post itself. I've made a very slow start on gar...

This morning (or yesterday evening, for the organised), clocks across Britain were set forward one hour. This is something that has always i...

After starting off my home brew in the kitchen, I move it downstairs to the store room, which is rather cooler. The lower temperature seems ...

I enjoy a drink of beer or wine, but often as not, it's for the taste rather than the alcohol content. I don't really like sweet dri...

Happy St David's Day! (That's what the post title means, by the way.) To mark the occasion, I'm going to attempt a bit of Welsh:...

After my early enthusiasm for fermenting all of the vegetables, I settled down to just sauerkraut . However, seeing that carrots were going...

There are bad days and there are good days. Today is a day of sunshine without the icy north wind that came with it at the weekend.Today is ...