The sunniest and warmest day of the year so far happily coincided with the tenth birthday of the middlest apprentice. My children spend a large part of their freetime living ’the famous five’ life so the opportunity to pack a picnic and go exploring was too good to miss. Salisbury is one of our regular haunts. There is usually [...]
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Five go exploring in Salisbury
Posted in drinks, family time, out and about, special places, tagged ginger beer, Mompesson House, Old Sarum, picnics, Salisbry, Treasure Trails on March 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Reasons to be cheerful
Posted in drinks, feel-good plants, pantry, tagged elderberry cordial, foraging, Higgledy Garden, how to grow the tallest sunflowers, how to make a sunflower den, sunflowers on September 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The wind’s whipping around the back of the house. Every time I step out of the door it rains…and I mean biblical torrents. I have a ‘to do’ list which looks like a queue for the latest Banksy exhibition and my PC is throwing a strop worthy of Violet Elizabeth Bott. Hence the messy looking [...]
End of term pleasures
Posted in drinks, pantry, tagged lemonade on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shouldn’t the last week of the Summer term be a time for winding down? Not so around here, it seems. The eldest apprentice has been undertaking a bit of impromptu fundraising with his classmates to send some goats to an African farming family. Consequently, he volunteered me for some homemade treats. What’s a Mum to do when [...]
Be nice to nettles
Posted in drinks, veg patch, wildlife gardens, tagged nettles on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hooray! It’s Be Nice to Nettles Week. This is one week when I can legitimately pretend that the large nettle patch on my new allotment is by design rather than default. Actually there are rather too many of them at the moment but I intend to keep a patch near the compost where I can brew some Nettle [...]
