There are two approaches to Christmas: some buy it all from John Lewis and Waitrose but I like it to be a little more homespun.
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hen we were little we would decorate the tree on Christmas Eve with decoratio...
I get a certain thrill as the Winter Solstice approaches. Not through any pagan sympathy but because after the 22nd December the days start to get longer.
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On a recent holiday in Iceland I read a food blog where the author was lamenting the sun's slow decline towards the Winter Solstice. He rallied his followers with the clarion call "Let's get through this winte...
I thought it was time for a Bianca update. She was the hen I took to the vet when she was laying soft shelled eggs and feeling rather sorry for herself.
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he was also at the bottom of the pecking order and ...
I have never used "green manure" but after reading so much about it in gardening magazines I decided to give it a whirl.
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reen manure is not the colourful excrement you might think - but instead is a quickly...
November has been a wet and windy month and now December is making its ferocious presence felt. We have got off lightly here in Hampshire compared with the North.
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he gales have caused some minor damage but...
I know what you're thinking... but trust me: chocolate and beetroot are a great combination.
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he beetroot have done well this year. We have grown three varieties: Bettolo, Chioggia and Burpees Golden. I'v...