Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 30 April 2008 | No Comments »
#3 in what are nettles good for? nettle soup.
I cooked nettles last year and found they were horrible.. now I realise the trick is to only pick young nettles, and to only pick the tips. a bit tedious, and gloves are mandatory, but they are free.. and free is my favourite price. There are lots [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged solar energy on 29 April 2008 | No Comments »
I remember my mum once telling a visitor that the reason they were insulating the loft was because the garden was falling into the river.
It’s logical really - let me explain. My parents had chosen to buy a house with problems, and a large garden, rather than a perfect house with no garden. ( See? it [...]
Posted in frugal living, general wittering, recipes on 11 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think my tastebuds are ruined. The ones that used to like rubbish.
I have always cooked. I can’t even remember when it began… perhaps beside my mum playing with spare pastry.. I dunno, just brought up cooking.. its natural. And not leaning on ready made food certainly helps you through skint times. But I used [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables, sheep, smallholding on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
I know I have gone on lately about how nice PSB (purple spouting broccoli) is- but it really is a great veg. This is our first year of growing it.. can you tell?!
But there it is, filling the ‘hungry gap’ with something we actually like! - we only put in one row, helped it through [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, wool, yarn on 16 March 2008 | No Comments »
I have finally undone the cardi that I bought from the charity shop. 2150g of wool - I would guess aran weight, but have yet to assess that.
I wound it all into balls, but from there, after a weigh in (helps judge what I can make from it) I have wound it into skeins, to [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, tagged seeds, sowing on 14 March 2008 | No Comments »
Spending a fair bit of time in the old greenhouse these days, sowing seeds, particularly as I have preference for starting most things off in modules, including beetroot and beet spinach - worked well for me last year, and we have such a large slug population, it being a mild yet rainy sort of place, [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 11 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favourite hobbies is starting knitting projects. I love it.. the new yarn.. the deciding what to make.. casting on..seeing how it knits up. Problem is, I’m not always great at finishing projects.
I have completed lots of things.. but my home is littered with the remains of UFOs (unfinished objects) , some of [...]
Posted in frugal living, house and home, smallholding, tagged leylandii on 4 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s that time of year when the daylight stretches out to after 6 on a clear day, and dinner gets pushed further and further back, as we make the most of light after work etc, until sometime in the summer we give up and actually break for food, before returning.
This evening we tackled the heap [...]
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