A few months ago, and honestly not for the first or realistically the last
time, my family betrayed me. It started, almost predictably, with the
youngest...
[image: Original guerrilla gardened Snowdrops]
The snowdrops are finally coming to the fore this week, does anyone else
think they're later this year? Of...
The weekly market at Kotpad, which takes place on Tuesdays
Odisha is billed as one of India's best-kept secrets, but in reality, it is
one of the nation's...
From A YEAR AT OTTER FARM, published by Bloomsbury, 2015 I’m indecently
proud of this salsa. My wife is no great fan of home smoked mackerel or
very shar...
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 ...
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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Wow! I've never seen a bluebell garden in the wood by my own eyes. I hope I can be there.
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