It has been a while – I am sorry – been busy writing and, after a while of that, anything with words becomes too hard to do. I thought I’d …

It is close enough to be being finished to pop up some photos. You will note in the following that I have carefully not shown the fireplace which still needs …

I might take some photos of the kitchen and put them up. 🙂 I also have a raft of recipes I’ve been toying about with, and general gossip. Sorry I haven’t …

I am here and thriving – but I am in the middle of making the world’s best fruitcake, an intensive 3 days of work, plus a myriad jars of passata, …

I spent the weekend preserving – tomato ketchup and pickled garlic. Here are the recipes. Tomato Ketchup Either you will like this or you won’t – it is very sweet, …

No, no kitchen photos yet. Sorry. I am waiting on the builder to do the last 10%. I thought I’d update on my progress on the self-sufficiency experiment. I wanted …

Well, the kitchen is done bar a few small details, and I am going to make you WAIT to see it. 🙂 It is a mess now as I am moving things …

Dave Freer asked me to talk a little about dehydrating – so here it is. Dehydrating is one of my favourite ways of preserving the harvest for several reasons: it …

Borlotti beans in jar, money in the food bank. And more tomatoes and zucchini sliced and in dehydrator.

Finally the kitchen is being rebuilt. Following are some pictures of the cabinets being put in – they are a little further advanced by now, but these pictures give the …