Organic Gardening
I know that normally this blog, although personal as regards anecdotes, isn’t personal as regards who I am and what-not. However I am pleased to announce that there will be a slight change… Read More
Category Archive: Updates/Reminders
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Photographs of my Food and Foraging Adventures
It is a great disappointment to me that when I make something and decide to blog it, I snap away with my camera and sadly some photos don’t end up making the cut.… Read More
Royal Icing (on a Christmas Cake fit for Three Kings!)
At last, the end is in sight (as regards the Christmas Cake) and we’ve now reached the final hurdle – icing. It’s incredibly easy or incredibly difficult depending on how you want your… Read More
Magnificent Marzipan
This post serves a dual purpose – for those of you who have been cooking along, so to speak, and have made the Christmas Cake that seems to have taken over the blog… Read More
Christmas Cake – feeding and care
Advent has begun! I can now legitimately and without shame enjoy Christmas for a full 24 days. I spent the evening of the 1st of December wandering the streets of London giggling like… Read More
Traditional rich and fruity Christmas Cake (part 2)
As promised here is the second half of the Christmas Cake endeavour. Today I committed the afternoon to cake baking and filled the house with the smell of warm fruit cake. It’s traditional… Read More
REMINDER. Beech Noyau
Since I reminded you to keep your eyes open for Blackthorn blossom a few weeks ago, many other things have started to flicker into life along the hedgerows and suddenly you won’t be able… Read More
Sloe Gin Reminder
Eventually, Spring has (sort of) sprung! All along the roads there’s beautiful billows of cherry blossom, and elegant froths of blackthorn. When I was little I was entranced by the poem by A… Read More
Festive Reminders
I know I know, Christmas is still a long way away and we can all get very huffy about the big Christmas signs that went up in shop windows as soon as Hallowe’en… Read More
