The Copper Preserving Pan – Finally.
Finally I have my copper preserving pan. It arrived from England yesterday and it is precisely what I needed. It has spent the last 80 odd years in someone’s attic, …
Frosty Wind Made Moan …
Almost all the way back to the bleak midwinter today. I wasn’t going to write today, but we’ve had the most fabulously scary wind and I had to say somethingabout it. …
Deadly Arctic Fogs, Some Gardening, and a Warm Winter’s Salad
Apparently Hobart is the centre for the production of a new meteorological disaster film, Arctic Blast: ice creeps up (or down, I guess, depending on which hemisphere you are in) from …
Mr Winter Man is Back
Such a cold, cold, bleak snap over the past several days. Snow down into the ‘burbs, biting, vicious winds. Not that I am particularly complaining, of course, because it is …
Update on the Self-Sufficiency Project for 2010
Still only July, but I continue to put things in place for my self-sufficiency project for 2010. My major task this winter has been the erecting and filling of seven …
Sausage Update
Well, wasn’t that a steep learning curve! Lessons learned: 1) Pork is a total shit to grind. Next time just get the pork mince at a $1 extra a kilo. …
Butchery Day – Time to Learn a New Skill
Once a month I have Butchery Day. I get in all the meat I need for the month and then process it. Actually, what I should say is that I …
The Frost Turns Deadly
The frost descended again yesterday and this morning also. Very, very cold. Even my lovely gas fires are not coping with this. Yesterday I had an early morning appointment in …
Some may call this an addiction …
… others a mere nod in the direction of practicality. I mean, doesn’t everyone amass large numbers of glass jars? I must have, well, a few hundred. At least. Both …