Something I joke about when introducing a new muffin recipe (not this one!)
in my new cookbook out this fall is the gap between the muffins we gaze at
in...
[image: The Big Plastic Count information pack]
It's citizen science week here at *VP Gardens* as I've signed up to take
part in The Big Plastic Count wh...
The following varieties of figs were supplied over a 3 year period. The
intention of Kate Danesh the Senior Gardener at Preston Hall Pathhead
Midlothian ...
From SOUR, published by Quadrille, 2019, available here If you are prone,
as I, to buying a skipful of Sevilles for the pleasure of marmalade making,
bef...
Bill Cat has been missing for over a week, presumed dead.
We got Bill, and his brother Ted, from a rescue centre around six months
after we moved to ...
Mexico City has long been loved for its sense of green, so if you get the
chance to visit after these troubled times of Covid-19, try to include
Javier S...
The days after Christmas, for me, are bitter sweet. On the one hand I’m
glad that all the presents have been distributed, the cooking is over and I
no long...
I bought a pomegranate tree about 7 years ago. It spent a couple of years
in a pot and then I planted it out to a spot that gets a reasonable amount
of aft...
Riding the D010 along Turkey's Black Sea coast The 1,200 miles across
Turkey was a good time for reflection. The days were warm and the nights
cool. Most o...
Blogging feels very retro these days. I started this blog in 2009 and then
abandoned it in 2012 and lately I've been thinking about getting back on it
agai...
Amazing how we grow and evolve. We follow our passions and goals; they
evolve and come in and out of focus. For example, I started this blog
because I l...
There’s no denying that when you live in a place you often don’t make an
effort to visit many of its attractions, probably because you think that
there wil...
First time a bait hive has worked for me. I have swarms arrive and take up
residence in piles of bee boxes, where they weren't welcome, but never into
a p...
Don’t own acres of rolling New Zealand countryside or a trusty beekeeping
outfit? Here’s my cheat’s guide to making your very own ‘mocknuka’ honey
from h...
Joseph Strutt, *A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of
England*, First published in 1796, reprinted, 1841.
From this terrific yellow cov...
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