Our friend Janet popped in to see us yesterday which was lovely as we hadn’t seen her since before the Christmas holidays. As usual she passed on all manner of fabulous gardening and cooking knowledge and before long had the children outside ‘helping her’take down a wire fence from our vegetable garden [...]
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What a great start to the day –Bealers got up before me and got the kids breakfasted (rare which makes it even more special when it happens!) while I snoozed on unaware that the day had begun. He brought me a nice cup of coffee about 20 minutes before he had to leave for [...] Our little ones celebrated their 4th birthday this weekend. On the big day itself we all had a great time and marvelled at how they have grown so much in four short years. They had a huge stash of cards and presents to open (thank you,thank you so much to all of you [...] Now this is exactly the sort of thing I hoped to see more of when we left London 7 months ago to start our new green,thrifty and environmentally aware life here in the West Midlands –a heron on the local duck pond at Hanley Swan (so is it officially a swan pond?). According [...] Our kids were taken to Bristol Zoo Gardens by their daddy’s relatives. I wasn’t mad on the idea of looking at caged animals but I had no idea what a wonderful place the zoo is for families a huge oasis of amazing gardens in the centre of Bristol. We got to learn about all sorts [...] We started messing around with our new vegetable plot this last weekend by digging overa couple of square metres and planting a couple of different varieties (artichoke for roasting and silverskin for general cooking) of garlic in the patch where potatoes were grown last year by Miss Dennly. We planted about 30 cloves each about [...] I’ve just been given a long list of top tips from my friend Pip who is the hostess with the mostess (thanks Pip!) and I thought I’d jot them all down before I forget them to use for our twins’4th birthday next weekend when we’ll have eight 2-4 year olds to entertain. I’ve managed [...] I wish I’d taken a picture of the Thames Water advert I saw on the London Underground yesterday. It told all the bored travellers that if they and everyone else washed their vegetables in a shallow bowl of water instead of under the running tap it would stop an astronomical amount of water from being [...] Yet another housewifely revelation for this one who is very slowly becoming domestic. I only found out last week that the reason accomplished homemakers do regular dusting is because they had secret knowledge which has been kept from me for 34 years…Apparently the trick is to do the dusting *before* you can see it. [...] | ||||||
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