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weekend wanderings; tat shops, hot chocolate & raspberry pruning
This month we have been really fortunate to spend most of our weekends at home in Cambridgeshire, which is rather rare these days. As we are trying to be a little frugal this year, this weekend we have...
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bye bye TESCO, hello COFCO; jumping on the vegbox bandwagon
I shop at TESCO. There, I admitted it. It isn’t because I want to; in my ideal world I would source everything from local bakers/butchers/greengrocers/markets that I know supply the best in seasonal,...
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become a better biodiverse gardener with Fennel and Fern
Image Credit: Fennel and Fern Starting today, the guys over at the marvellous Fennel and Fern organic gardening blog are launching the second round of their highly acclaimed ‘Become a Better Gardener‘...
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recipe: rhubarb and cinnamon crumble
At this time of year, we always have a real glut of rhubarb on the allotment. Our predecessor left us no less than eight rhubarb plants on the plot, spanning the entire width of our little patch of...
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weekend wanderings: hometown tourist
Hello there on this gloriously sunny Tuesday! I’m just popping in today, as I intend to take full advantage of this freak sunshine to do all the outdoorsy jobs I need to do on our house before we...
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weekend diary: practice what you preach
Hey guys, I bet you’ve all been wondering where the hell I’ve been! I was pretty shocked to notice that it’s been almost a full week since my last post – the time has really whizzed by. I can’t...
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the farm menagerie
Living in our little farm cottage is GREAT. I’m not sure how much I’ve expressed my absolute love of living here and the ways in which it has changed my outlook on life, but I can assure you that we...
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march in the garden
All you fellow allotment-y, garden-y sorts will know that March is a pretty exciting, yet also mildly terrifying month. After a winter of pottering about, doing odd repair and preparation jobs and...
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procrastinating
I’m supposed to be working today – we’re heading up to Yorkshire on Thursday evening for the weekend so we agreed that we would have Friday as our ‘Bank Holiday’ instead of today. Naturally, that...
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seasonal preserving
I have to admit, I’m not a very good forager. I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea how to find a rowan or a sloe (although a friend has promised me a sloe gin tutorial this year), and I wouldn’t know a...
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