Wednesday the builders left.. and the best bit is having our house back again. Nice guys, cheerful and helpful, and now we have a solid wall and everything, but very disruptive to our daily lives, in particular home education.
We have been out and about, whenever himself was working at home, and went to the pottery [...]
Archive for January, 2008
a normal education…
Posted in home education, house and home, tagged educational resources on 25 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
parsnip experimenting
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, tagged sowing, vegetables on 24 January 2008 | No Comments »
Last year I decided to take a leaf out of my late Granddad’s book and try growing parsnips in toilet roll tubes. He was a great gardener and had two allotments when he retired.
Parsnips take a long time to germinate, but you can speed things along by planting individual seeds in the tubes, filled with [...]
are all celebrity chefs hated locally?
Posted in general wittering, tagged celebrity chefs on 23 January 2008 | No Comments »
I, along with, it seems most of the UK, watched Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls ‘Chicken Run’ on the tv the other week. I have long been a fan of HFW, since the ‘cook on the wildside’, he has brought the notion of growing and raising your own food, and foraging to the masses, he has encouraged people [...]
clay pipe time line
Posted in house and home, tagged clay tobacco pipe on 22 January 2008 | No Comments »
as predicted, the second clay pipe we found (the ribby one) is much younger than the first, and according to our local expert Heather Coleman
This is what we call a ribbed design, series of wide lines with a sort of shell like pattern. They seem to come into fashion in England around 1800 and reach [...]
seed packets beat blue monday
Posted in frugal living, general wittering, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, tagged seeds on 21 January 2008 | No Comments »
Spring is definitely springing. We have primroses and snowdrops out, the daffodils are pushing their way up. Now finally it feels like a new year.
To add to the feeling, my seed orders are coming in.
This is my method to beat those post winter festival thingy blues. In fact today as been named ‘blue Monday’ , [...]
acroprops down.. wall still up
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, recipes, self-sufficiency, tagged building work on 20 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
and that has to be a good thing.
Yes, our horribly straight, modern yet supportive block wall is up and doing it’s job and we took the acros away. I’m going to hang on to my bit of ‘joke wall’; friends came round for coffee and made me feel a tad bad for taking out the [...]
clay tobacco pipe
Posted in books, frugal living, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, tagged clay tobacco pipes on 19 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
Found a second complete bowl from an old tobacco pipe. Just lying there on the surface of a veg bed. Nothing like a bit of rain (and we have had a bit more than a bit!) to wash out these pipes. We usually find lots of stem bits.. but a bowl is very special. I [...]
welly socks
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged socks, knitting on 18 January 2008 | No Comments »
Himself was bemoaning how his socks always seemed to work themselves off his feet when wearing wellies. The ground is so soggy and poached that wellies are fairly essential wear in the fields and garden now.
so, I rummaged in my amazingly large stash of wool and found some chunky wool left over from a jumper, [...]
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