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Edie and I watched some ladybirds ‘cuddling’last week and photographed them. Later in the week when we found our newly flowering aquilegas were covered in aphids I suggested we go on a ladybird hunt as they are good at eating all the aphids. We were both a little surprised to find one who [...] Oops. Looks like I almost missed National Downshifting Week. I came across this initiative this time last year just as we were looking for a house to move away from London to and I was keen to find resources and information about stepping towards a new way of living. National Downshifting Week [...] Large piece of steak cut into strips and marinated for a couple of hours in the fridge in natural yoghurt,lime juice (from a bottle hanging around in the fridge),Encona hot chilli sauce Boiled rice Tortilla wraps Chunky salad of orange pepper,cucumber,spinach leaves,ripe avocado Natural greek style yoghurt Salsa made [...] Both Edie and Mo and also their little friend Bella who came all the way from London to visit us with her mum this weekend have been covered in insect bites. Beki thought that Bella had been bitten by fleas as they have a cat and I’d been telling my kids that it must be [...] At the beginning of April I planted my ‘early’potatoes (a variety of spud which is ready to eat early in the season) and ‘main crop’potatoes (a different sort which is ready later in the season –and bigger? I’m not entirely sure yet) in a couple of trenches (about 20-30cm deep) next to [...] My poor four year olds were back at their idyllic village pre-school yesterday after a two (or was it three?) week Easter break. Each day I’ve picked them up at 3pm only to have both of them wailing,refusing to get in the car and generally melting at the tops of their voices with streams [...] Wow. We had a grass snake in our garden. We watched it,photographed it,video’d it and generally marvelled at how it moved like a snake a bit but also just sunbathed a lot in front of the compost heap where we keep the children’s outdoor toys and I have a water butt. I LOVE [...] Thank you Good Housekeeping Institute and the tomes of wisdom I have gleaned from you over the years but this is by far the most useful nugget you have published since I’ve been reading your monthly magazine as getting boiled eggs to come out exactly as everyone wanted was a mysterious black art I’d never [...] One of my kids really enjoys planting things,learning the names of flowers,watering,digging,weeding and generally being out in the fresh air helping me in the garden. Her brother is more interested in books and films but now we live here in the countryside with a large garden,he is becoming interested in [...] You’d think that having watched Gardener’s World every friday night for the past decade from various London dwellings I’d know exactly how to seperate the little baby plants from each other in their small pots and transplant to larger individual pots where they will have space and nourishment to grow bigger BUT I was really [...] | ||||||
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