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Kitchen Garden Sowing Plans 2025
I’m simplifying my kitchen garden plans for the year, and concentrating on a few simple varieties of the vegetables we use most in the kitchen. I’m slowly moving areas of the garden to perennial productivity, so most fruit is in place already. Chillies January week 3 Sweet Peppers January week 3 Shallots (seed) January week…
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The Year Of The Dog
Two days before Christmas we picked up our first dog. Our first real family pet; one that didn’t live in a tank and require little more than a few fish flakes and an occasional clean. We decided to call her Super Noodle (Noodle for short, Super Noodle being reserved for formal occasions). Our Noodle is…
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Teachers Gifts 2024
I suffered a bout of illness, along with Russell, to start July this year. It’s a problematic bout of illness that has scuppered a number of plans that we held, none more important than our 10th wedding anniversary, which we didn’t celebrate with a gift or card passing between us, only some paracetamol and some…
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Twelve Days Of Christmas Ornaments, Part II
Now that Christmas is over and life creeps back to ‘normal’ I was hoping to find a bit more time and mental space to ease into the new year with some more ornaments from this set. I’ve sometimes caught a bit of time in the evening, but the low light and my increasing reliance on…
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Homegrown Strawberry Jam with Pomegranate Molasses
One of my main wished for the garden this year was to grow enough strawberries to make a jar of jam, and this week I have gathered a strawberry harvest and made the fruitiest, most balanced jam I have ever tasted. I don’t like commercially produced strawberry jam, and I will always opt for raspberry…
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Daddy & Me T-shirts
For Fathers Day this year I decided to make a pair of matching t-shirts for Bean and Russell, from the fabric that they had both spotted at the local fabric store last time I went to pick up a bit of interfacing. At seven (and three quarters!) years old, Bean is obsessed with space, so…