Posted in general wittering, home education, make it yourself on 4 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Himself had a day off work and we went on a jolly educational trip. We visited Cold Harbour Mill, which is a 200 year old spinning mill. Originally powered bythe huge water wheel, then later the steam engine. Since we started to card and spin our own fleece, we have been interested in visiting this [...]
Posted in general wittering on 30 May 2008 | No Comments »
I just stepped outside to release a mouse the cat had so kindly brought in. Not so bad when they are dead, even better when he eats them, but when he brings them in to play.. they usually hide in the house and end up staying. I had to catch it.
Wasn’t all bad, in the [...]
Posted in general wittering, house and home, tagged flowers on 27 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s a lot of talk about the complete lack of bees.. and how the world will come to an end without them. Which is slightly odd given that my garden is heaving with bees at the moment. The garden is looking particularly nice and cottagey - no thanks to us as we have pretty much [...]
Posted in being greener, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 10 May 2008 | No Comments »
very hot here today - which actually got in the way a tad, of all the things I wanted to get done - as wilting was not on the list! I burn so easily that I mostly avoid the mid day sun.. perhaps I should take to siestas!
By 4 it was just perfect - and [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home on 9 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have mentioned a few times that we have too much lawn.. despite digging lots of it up for veg patches.. and plan to bring the fruit garden into the lawn next year.. but still we face the irony of cutting the grass being the only time we use motorised machinery to do any work [...]
Posted in general wittering on 6 May 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t know why I keep listening to weather forecasts. They so often get it wrong. Sometimes they even get the current situation wrong! - it will say pouring with rain now .. and its sunny! Mostly they tell of gloom.. half an hour’s rain means rain is forecast.. not sun…
The forecast was wrong for [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency on 3 May 2008 | No Comments »
a very good day - we took part in a community event and walked around a wood owned by one our neighbours - really inspiring, planted twenty years ago, and looks wonderful. We would like to put some trees in for coppicing - we don’t have enough land to supply ourselves with firewood, but we [...]
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 [...]
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