Today we did eggs - we had boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast, did a little Easter egg hunt, then we did the one organised for us by our son, we had some chocolate (thanks Mum and Dad!) and for tea himself made a lovely bread and butter pudding (recipe courtesy of Delia.. before she [...]
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eggs
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged chickens, seeds, sowing, eggs, smallholding, easter on 23 March 2008 | No Comments »
family time
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, home education, livestock on 22 March 2008 | No Comments »
With everything we are trying to do - all the new things we are taking on, it is easy to not have enough ‘family time’
That sounds far worse than it is, after all as I home educate our son, we spend lots and lots of time together.
And he is very into everything we are doing [...]
hot not cross buns
Posted in recipes on 21 March 2008 | 7 Comments »
Every year I try and make my own hot cross buns, and every year, the results are something like rock cakes..(not my intention!).This year I have cracked it!
I give you hot not cross buns
I don’t object to the putting of crosses on top, I am sure the tradition of hot cross buns goes back further [...]
where did that come from?
Posted in house and home on 21 March 2008 | No Comments »
I remember the weather man saying something about North winds.. and cold.. but no mention of the word ‘gale’, and yet last night it was very blustery - the suddenly blasts causing very localised damage. The wind was coming from the west, and whistling between the nearby buildings, taking a hold of the roof of [...]
spring equinox
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged chickens, vegetables, sheep, eggs, equinox on 20 March 2008 | No Comments »
The call it ‘the first day of spring’, but that’s daft, as spring comes in when it will, and it’s definitely sprung already. The equinox is the day that the length of day and night are the same, and from now on the days will be longer than the nights - yay!
We notice it, as [...]
grass cutting
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 19 March 2008 | No Comments »
First grass cut of the year.. I mean our lawn, not the field.
Annoying, because:
It’s time consuming,
we have too much lawn grass and are short of field grass.. but I cannot think of a way to change that, our garden area does not lend itself to grazing, (well not without the risk of sheep wandering into [...]
no big green gathering this year
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, tagged bgg, big green gathering on 18 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
which will be no loss to me. I am, of course, biased, narky even, due to being excluded. more on that later.
If you are at all interested in the BGG (the festival, not the activity going on in my pond!) then you will probably know that it hit financial trouble. The festival had to pay [...]
ladies wot lunch
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged chickens, vegetables, smallholding on 17 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
well ok, none of us are ladies.. definitely not my son or himself!, but today, we had a day off, and went out for lunch, a big bowl of local mussels and chips. Put on clothes that were not stiff with mud and everything!
It was really nice, having a mooch about town, but have become [...]
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