Changes on this site

Hello, everybody, Danny here. We are making some changes to the site over the weekend, so bear with us if things appear to be a little unusual. It should all settle down by Sunday evening. Please let...

Edible garden update: September 2009

Even though we bought a budget greenhouse that arrived in a long thin box and caused a lot of head scratching and cursing, I love this small haven. I hang out in it all year – I suppose it’s the...

It’s my seventh week off work. Discovering great blogs and dehydrators.

I’ve been put on a two week course of antibiotics as the last course didn’t clear the kidney infection and I’ve finally been referred for a scan. Still in bed for most of the day, feeling peaky. I do...

A sleeping life

A year or so ago I visited Celia Hart’s Open Studio – the one and only Magic Cochin of Purple Podded Peas. There on the wall was a wonderful print of a hare asleep in a burrow. “I know that I would...

Our new site search engine: Zoom

For Fiona’s blog 3rd birthday we invested in the Zoom site search engine. You can try it out in the right-hand sidebar. One of the weakest features of the standard WordPress package is its inbuilt...