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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Best/Worst: 24 to 30 July 2017
Welcome to a new week, this week is my last one before my birthday and my week off work so I’m very happy, which is in not usual for a Monday! Best Gin Club. Tasting the gin is interesting but … Continue reading
Friday Links
Happy Friday! It’s been a pretty normal week but I’m still very glad to get to the end of it. More equal than others, how the middle class stays ahead. This is spot on. An ode to hair bobbles – … Continue reading
Cooking from the Allotment: It’s that time of year
There is so much food coming off the plot this year. Last year, I had an abundance of courgettes and documented a couple of ways to use them. There was pickle, cake, pizza and caviar. The cake and the pizza … Continue reading
Allotment Adventures: Cut your losses
This was the week I decided that it was ok to stop doing something if it wasn’t doing well. That thing was the boston squash. I had put what I thought was 2 baby blue hubbards in the box to … Continue reading
Posted in allotment, Food, Gardening
Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, beetroot, carrots, chard, crookneck squash, cucumbers, feeding yourself, french beans, grow your own, grow your own food, herbs, I grew this, kitchen garden, planting for autumn, plums, salad, spinach, spring onions, tarragon, tomatoes, winter squash
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Random thoughts
This is a pretty accurate lists of all the things that have been flitting through my head in the last week or two. I need to switch my brain off.. I’m on the verge of demob/birthday fever. Nine more … Continue reading
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Best/Worst 17 to 23 July 2017
Best Movies. We went to see Baby Driver on Wednesday and it was so much fun and had a brilliant soundtrack. Yes it is a bit gory towards the end but if you can, go and see it! The … Continue reading
Friday Links
Happy Friday! Well folks, it’s been a week. I’ve been on the wrong day all week. From Tuesday on, I was a day ahead of reality, which makes the week a slog, nothing like thinking it Thursday and you have … Continue reading
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Tagged gin, hillybilly elegy, is it good to talk, pensions, The Perspective Police, weedkiller, white trash
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A Day in Food: Eating from the plot
It’s that time of year when the allotment is contributing to what I eat. I thought it would be fun to run through a day’s eating and show you what I eat in a day and point out what I … Continue reading
Posted in allotment, Cooking, Food
Tagged a day in food, cooking from the allotment, grow some of your own food, produce, what I ate, what I grew
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The Problem with Perfection
I’m not a perfectionist. I like to have control over my immediate environment but I’m all about good enough. Mostly because perfection is hard work but also because perfection is unattainable. Good enough is good enough.I’ve been thinking about this … Continue reading
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