I had to write a blog post today – chance only comes up every 4 years. Beautiful day – spent most of it building out arbour/pegola thing, watching the toads, frogs and newts in the pond and even managed some blankie time – it was that warm And i caught a bit too much sun [...]
Archive for February, 2012
leap
Posted in general wittering on 29 February 2012 | 2 Comments »
the room of doom
Posted in crochet, dyeing, general wittering, house and home, knitting, make it yourself, spinning, weaving on 28 February 2012 | 2 Comments »
Over the last couple of days we have been tackling the room of doom aka the spare room. ‘Spare’ makes it seem surplus to requirements – not so – we have both worked from home in that room, it is the main storage area of our home dyed wool, in various stages of process, our [...]
spring, in pictures
Posted in general wittering, tagged frogspawn on 25 February 2012 | 6 Comments »
sowing, planting and harvesting w/e 24/2
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, herbs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged seeds, sowing, vegetables on 24 February 2012 | Leave a Comment »
sowing: broad beans – express – in modules in greenhouse cabbage – primo – in seed tray in greenhouse red spring onions – in pot in greenhouse lettuce – red salad bowl – in seed tray in propagator
schmallenberg virus
Posted in sheep, tagged sheep on 22 February 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Another animal virus does the rounds - this time smallenberg virus – which affects cattle sheep and goats. Defra information It would seem from the information given that it reduces milk yield in cattle, but more worrying causes birth defects in sheep and cattle. For sheep this could result in difficult/impossible births – the vets [...]
sowing, planting and harvesting w/e 17/2
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, herbs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged seeds, sowing, vegetables on 18 February 2012 | Leave a Comment »
sown: broad beans – express leeks – mammoth tornado calabrese – green magic geraniums
poor man’s goose
Posted in recipes on 17 February 2012 | 2 Comments »
My mum has often talked fondly of this dish that her grandmother used to make, a way of using up left over roast pork. And good leftovers recipes are popular in this house, as we like to cook a large joint. My version of poor man’s goose has potatoes in it (not accurate to my mum’s memory of [...]
sowing, planting and harvesting w/e 10/2
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, herbs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged seeds, sowing, vegetables on 10 February 2012 | Leave a Comment »
harvesting: leeks savoy cabbage spring cabbage PSB sage
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