On farm classes
PROGRESS! Thank you, lovely friends, for all your encouraging comments on my last post. Project Elephant is well underway. I had beautiful friends turn up today who boxed books and wrapped prints off the walls. Yesterday I pulled all the green tomatoes off the slightly decrepit […]
So apparently we are moving house on Monday. And meanwhile I seem to be making jar after jar of apple sauce (home-reared pork on the way, you know), and bottling twenty kilograms of tomatoes. No, I don't know either. It's some kind of dreadful procrastination. Another loaf of bread […]
I was so inspired by what you were all eating last week! It's made me lift my game. We eat lots of fresh and whole food, a lot of it raised ourselves, but everyone gets in food ruts, where simple slips into ordinary. Reading other people's […]
In a rush? Me too. Most days start with a flurry of school lunch making, bag checking, attempted showering and not looking in the mirror once. (If you'd told me I'd ever leave the house without at least looking I would have snorted a little rudely. Once.) […]
I haven't always hated supermarkets. In fact, I used to love them. I loved "grocery shopping" – as kid, when Mum did it once a month only, as a poor student buying up beans and rice, and as a traveller, relishing cheap wine on the shelves in France, […]
I would not ever have thought of making this slice if my Mum had not come out before we set off blackberrying on Saturday and asked me if I remembered the recipe to Mars Bar Slice. I did, although I had not made it for, no exaggeration, […]
Hi! I wonder what you are cooking this week. Sometimes I look in the fridge and the pantry and I just struggle to figure out what to put on the table every night. And some weeks I'm super organised and I have a menu plan designed to use up […]
~ The geese (who live here but belong to the neighbours) are noisy and messy and they occasionally chase small children. I'll miss them terribly […]
I made blackberry jam today. We've found a bunch of brambles round here, all covered with luscious fruit. Super cool. And free! I've never made blackberry jam so I followed the usual rules re: weight of fruit and sugar and a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice. I […]
{this moment} – Joining in with Soulemama's Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Happy Friday, lovely folks xx