Category Archives: books

herbish

By Lucy | Published May 24, 2010

and as recommended by the tasty herbalsist – a totally gorgeous tea this one, were drinking it with the fresh leaves just now :) fruitish: and finally some more plantings of lettuce and salad leaves: a favourite book being perused just now – the complete book of herbs Related posts:WW2rhubarb, tweets and elderflowershow does your garden [...]

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a spot of sun

By Lucy | Published May 10, 2010

and some ballet feet pics: … gardening snowed off today… much hilarity reading P.G. Wodehouse’s Laughing Gas See our ballet designs on t-shirts, mugs, hats and aprons! Related posts:explosivesheep and shunninghome educated children steal school bus!

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wood sorrel

By Lucy | Published April 25, 2010

beautiful plant – edible too Perfect book for this time of year if interested in wild foods and foraging: Richard Mabey’s Food for Free Related posts:curry noodlessnow and trollsfinally… a blog post

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growth

By Lucy | Published April 15, 2010

Planted my berry bushes from Suttons yesterday, well protected there from the rabbits Potatoes are going in today… Dipping into the Anastasia series again to get truly inspired again with growing, so different from anything else I’ve ever read. Made wonderful leek, potato and wild garlic soup from the recipe on Cat’s blog Related posts:book [...]

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polytunnels and taps

By Lucy | Published March 6, 2010

Weve had a few spring-like days now, causing me to dig over some ground for the little polytunnel and clean and set up the coldframe to let the ground warm up for salad seeds. Browsing Suttons trying to decide what to plant this year – will have more room with extra raised beds… this really [...]

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swan lake

By Lucy | Published February 6, 2010

There were swans on the loch yesterday Had a lovely day with friends morphing into a very balletic afternoon which was great fun. It’s been wonderful rediscovering ballet being for enjoyment, rather than an eternal striving (not to mention starving) for perfection. Looked out the old class music etc. I have but it’s all on cassettes – [...]

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cheap

By Lucy | Published February 2, 2010

a frugal recipe again, basic pasties :) and bargains to be had – the book people are offering 10% off all orders until midnight tomorrow (Wed. 3rd Feb) – just enter WIN10 at checkout for offer. Related posts:squashes againamong the snowdrops Silmarils

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among the snowdrops

By Lucy | Published January 30, 2010

more snow… some little bits I’ve been meaning to mention spread among the lovely signs of spring to come Wayne Dyer’s new program: Excuses Begone! – been enjoying listening to that – he is always so motivational and uplifting. The Bristol Dyslexia Centre has some interesting stuff on it’s site including some free educational games taken from the [...]

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blog, Illich and broth

By Lucy | Published January 23, 2010

Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the snow [...]

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a casserole and a cookbook

By Lucy | Published January 12, 2010

We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]