I have finally been paid! And even better than that I’ve been paid by both jobs. Normally I get paid by cheque from one job and that has cleared, and mostly been spent, by the time my pay from my other job comes into the bank but this month has been messed up because of the bank [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Nettle Cordial
Posted in Food, Homemade, Wild Food, tagged nettles, elder, cordial on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here in spirit
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, tagged blogging, summer, working on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, lately my blogging has been very patchy to say the least, partly because it’s summer and that is a very busy time of year for us food producers, add to that the fact that for the past 5 weeks I have been working two part-time jobs (I don’t know how I ever managed to [...]
In season this week #6
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke | aubergine | beetroot | broad beans | broccoli | carrots | courgettes | cucumber | fennel | french beans | garlic | kohlrabi | leeks | mangetout | marrow | onions | peppers | potatoes (maincrop) | radishes | rocket | runner beans | sorrel | sweetcorn | watercress | wild mushrooms
FRUIT & [...]
More freecycle
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged freecycle, jars, LETS, sacks on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was working today but have had quite a busy freecycle day as well.
There was a want post a few days ago for someone who wanted jars for pickling so I arranged that she could have some of the boxes full of jars that I got from LETS a while ago. Not all the jars [...]
More meat chicks
Posted in Chickens, Food, Home grown food, tagged Chickens, chicks, meat, ross cobbs on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five weeks ago Mother ordered some more Ross Cobbs, the lady in Gloucester needed a minimum order of 50 chicks and as we’re only have 30 we were going to have to wait six weeks but she would let us know if any became available sooner.
Well she did get some sooner so me and Rhys [...]
Potatoes and mushrooms
Posted in Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Wild Food, tagged mustrooms, potatoes on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s my day off today, I got up this morning and got distracted by the vegetable garden on the way down to the goats (in the end Rhys went and feed them instead) one of the boxes that’s had potatoes growing in it was looking very empty of plant so I pull at one of [...]
Weddings and car crashes
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Goats, tagged car, car crash, charity shops, Food, goat, Goats, library, weddings on August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ok, me and Rhys got back from the wedding on Friday, the driving wasn’t to bad (very long.) On the way there and back we ended up stopping at the same services as me and mother picked up Abna from a few years ago, Felix grandfather.
When we got there we went out for dinner with [...]
Ice Cream
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged cream, Homemade, ice cream, mango, peach on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mother made mango and peach ice cream from Primrose cream today, it’s really nice.
Weddings & LETS meeting
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, tagged drive, gift, hamper, LETS, wedding on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Me and Rhys are going away for a few days for a friends wedding, it’ll be my first time driving on the motorway. We’re going to make them a hamper as a gift again, this time I will try to remember to take photos before giving it away, but they’re going on honeymoon for [...]
In season this week #6
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Home grown food on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke, aubergine, beetroot, broad beans, broccoli, carrots, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic, kohlrabi, mangetout, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes (maincrop), radishes, rocket, runner beans, sorrel, watercress
FRUIT & NUTS
apricots, blackberries, blueberries, greengages, loganberries, melons, nectarines, peaches, plums, raspberries, redcurrants, tomatoes
MEAT
lamb, rabbit, wood pigeon
Thank you Eat the Seasons!
