I now have a knitting machine courtesy of a local freecycle member, this is to go along with my box of needles, drop spindle, travel sawing machine, peg loom and sock knitting machine. I desperately need to carry on with my decluttering to find room for it all, and space to set some of it up.
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Archive for July, 2009
Wool craft
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, allotment, tagged Garden, knitting, summer, summer holiday on July 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Out and about
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged Forest, home, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Medieval Festival, walking on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been working at Tewkesbury Medieval Festival this weekend, another play tent. I enjoy working at events, it’s not the same just visiting them, which of course is nice but I like to feel like I am part of what is going on, that I have a role.
I find it very easy to be a bit [...]
Counting eggs
Posted in Chickens, tagged Chickens, Eggs, Silver Dorking on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The oldest of the Silver Dorking chicks is looking very cockerel like, but as they are sex-linked chicks I’m not really surprised. Still it would have been nice to be wrong, if that one is a cockerel then so is the other so no hen chick for the minute. There are a few more eggs [...]
July’s LETS meeting
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged LETS, Local Exchange Trading System, market, meeting on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last night was the July LETS meeting and market, in the summer the meetings start at 6.30pm which makes getting to them when I finish at 6pm or after but this meeting wasn’t to far from work so I got there just after it started. There was already most people there by the time I got there and it had a [...]
In season this week #43
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Homemade on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke*, asparagus, aubergine*, beetroot*, broad beans*, broccoli*, carrots*, chillies*, courgettes*, cucumber, fennel*, french beans*, garlic*, kohlrabi*, lettuces & salad leaves*, mangetout*, new potatoes*, onions*, peas*, potatoes (maincrop), radishes*, rhubarb, rocket*, runner beans*, samphire, spinach, spring onions*, sweetcorn, turnips*, watercress*, wild nettles
FRUIT
apricots*[i], bilberries*, blackberries, blueberries*, cherries, chillies*, gooseberries*, greengages, kiwi fruit*[i], lemons[i], loganberries*, melons*[i], oranges[i], peaches[i], [...]
Allotment 04/07/09
Posted in Food, Home grown food, allotment, tagged allotment, cabbages, french beans, Garden, peas, runner beans on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spent a very busy couple of hours up on the allotment today with Rhys and middle-youngest-sister. All the time we were up there it was threatening to rain, and did start twice, but we still get a lot done. Three beds sorted, one for MYS’s tomato plants, half of one has gone down to peas, [...]
New toys
Posted in Homemade, tagged knitting, knitting machine, sock knitting machine, socks, Victorian on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Even though I am trying to de-clutter I have been tempted by a few things lately, and given in on two occasions.
My first purchase was a small set of wood carving tools, I’ve never tried wood carving of any sort, or have any idea if the tools I have bought are any good, but I like [...]
Loose ends
Posted in Chickens, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Poultry, tagged cows, Goats, LETS, potatoes on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the cows have gone and life is carrying on as it does. We are starting to think of what to get next, as we do enjoy the cows milk we will get another one, it is just a matter of what and when.
There have been other things that have happened in the last week [...]
In Season this week #42
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke*, asparagus, aubergine*, beetroot*, broad beans*, broccoli*, carrots*, courgettes*, cucumber, fennel*, french beans*, garlic*, jersey royal new potatoes, kohlrabi, lettuces & salad leaves*, mangetout*, new potatoes*, onions*, peas*, potatoes (maincrop), radishes*, rhubarb, rocket*, runner beans*, samphire, spinach, spring onions*, turnips*, watercress*, wild mushrooms, wild nettles
FRUIT
apricots*[i], blueberries*, cherries*, chillies, gooseberries*, greengages, kiwi fruit*[i], lemons[i], loganberries, melons*[i],oranges[i], [...]
