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According to these people  anyway. I’m not sure if picking nettles for processing as they suggest is actually being ‘nice’ to them…  but I don’t feel like being nice to them at all, as I managed to get stung on the back of my ankle whilst trimming the sheeps’ feet, and it still hurts! *whine*
anyway, [...]

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Today a family trip out to one of our favourites: Tintagel.  Difficult to explain why, as I am not obsessed with Arthurian legend, and there is not much castle there really, but still the whole ruined castle stuck out on a crumbling cliff headland is quite appealing.  It’s obvious how easy it would have been [...]

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Another new toy and yes this one was a bit indulgent.. but the egg skelter is so cool, it had to be done.
What a good idea - the eggs are arranged in the order they were laid.. so you eat them in the right order..
take the bottom egg and the rest all roll down; it’s [...]

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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 [...]

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the window for lambing now draws to a close.. if they squeezed any out now they remaining ewes would have had to have been tupped on the ram’s last day, and be a week late too! - is not going to happen…
So - not a roaring success. 
 Only one out of the three ewes lambed.. she [...]

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what are nettles good for #5 - nettle pasta
After making the nettle beer, I was left with a panful of nettle pulp with a few bits of lemon peel.  I picked these out and thought… seems a shame to have done all that tedious nettle picking and then throw them away and only keep the [...]

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Caught in one of the instant death traps this morning.  Let’s hope he was working alone.  I feel no remorse.. it was him or our food.

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what are nettles good for #4

Honestly, I thought nettle beer would be disgusting….and it’s not  - its really very good!.. made in a similar way to elderflower champagne (but not quite as wonderful). 
 Me being me.. I looked at a few recipes for nettle beer, then tweaked it into my own. A hit with us - so [...]

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