Me sat on bed flipping through a gardening magazine: “shall I get the five free strawberry plants?”
Rhys laying on bed, unable to move with bad back: “I don’t know, what do you have to do to get them?”
Me: “Send them £3.95″
Rhys, starts with chock of laughter: “You are actually the kind of person to take [...]
Archive for September, 2008
What do men know any way
Posted in Day-to-day, Garden, tagged free, plants, strawberry on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Catching up on the last couple of weeks
Posted in Chicken, Chickens, Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, tagged birthday, breeding, bucket, carrots, Chicken, Garden, goat, male, party, plant, puppet, strawberry, weather, workshop on September 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well my wish was granted, I had the last two weekends off and both have had good weather. It’s been so nice to be able to be out doing things.
The last week or so has felt very strange, it’s been busy but is hasn’t necessarily felt like it was busy. Everything feels like it is [...]
In season this week #9
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Homemade on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke | aubergine | beetroot | broccoli | butternut squash | carrots | celeriac | celery | courgettes | fennel | garlic | kale | kohlrabi | leeks | marrow | onions | peppers | potatoes (maincrop) | pumpkin | radishes | rocket | sweetcorn | turnips | watercress | wild mushrooms
FRUIT & NUTS
apples | [...]
Credit Crunch
Posted in Food, tagged Credit crunch, Food, food prices, heating, Labour, news, shopping on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning on breakfast news there was an interview with a woman, it was something to do with the Labour conference, and she was talking about the credit crunch and how it was effecting her and her family, prices for things have been going up, interest rates are rising and how bad it was, etc., [...]
Milking Film
Posted in Food, Home grown food, tagged cow, film, milk, milking, Primrose on September 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just loaded a film of me and my youngest sister hand milking Primrose on to YouTube.
Hand Milking Film: YouTube
I hope our hands only look black and blue on my computer screen!
Darkness world
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On September 17, 2008 from 21:50 to 22:00 hours.
Proposes to turn off all lights and if possible all electrical appliances, so our planet can ‘breathe’.
if many take part, energy saving can be massive.
Only 10 minutes, and see what happens.
Yes, we are 10 minutes in the dark, we light a candle and simply watch it, breathe [...]
When the sun is shining…
Posted in Day-to-day, Garden, tagged Garden, Heritage Open Days, LETS, Local Exchange Trading System, rain, sun, weather, work on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m working.
It feels like every time there has been even just one day of reasonable weather, and I don’t even mean sunny weather, I’ve been in the middle of working flat out for one reason or another. This weekend is was because the museum that I work for was taking part in Heritage Open Days, [...]
Local vs British
Posted in Food, Home grown food, tagged british, carrots, Food, local, shooping, supermarket, Tesco on September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For an ex-mining market town, our local town is full of life. It has two green grocers, four butchers, two chemists, two florists, two DIY/household type shops, a whole food shop and two supermarkets, one a Lidl and the other a Co-op.
You can pretty much buy anything there you might need, so long as once [...]
In season this week #8
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke | aubergine | beetroot | broccoli | butternut squash | carrots | celery | courgettes | cucumber | fennel | garlic | kale | kohlrabi | leeks | mangetout | marrow | onions [...]
Look at the camera, now smile!
Posted in Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, tagged caterpillar, courgettes, Garden, photo, planning, potato, strawberry, summer, tomatoes on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the photo my middle-sister took of me with my basket full of courgettes at the weekend, all harvested just minutes earlier from the ‘muck heap’ garden. I’ve never been keen on having ‘look at the camera’ photos taken, no matter how real your smile might be they always seem to have a fake [...]
