I always use the cooking liquor from when I cook a boiled ham as the base for a soup, I have even frozen it for future use when soup was not on...
Cornwall. A glorious sunny morning, blue sky big fluffy white clouds. Very chilly. Ideal for a walk on a beach.
Made a loaf and did a big wash up and tidy. Today ia another busy one. Walk the dog, go to Par Market to pick up the rest of the mugs I bought...
I do not enjoy gardening in the rain, when it is blowing a hooley or it is freezing cold. When there is a good gardening weather day, by the time...
I made a batch of tea cakes, ate 2 hot out of the oven. Very bad for your digestion my grandmother always used to tell me, eating hot cakes etc....
Your silver birch look pretty good to me. It is quite normal for older specimens to develop warty areas on the trunks with age. I would be...
My condolences. What a difficult year for you. as you say, hopefully 2025 will be better for you all.
I picked some more tomatoes, just beginning to colour, to finish ripening indoors. Everything comes to those who wait. Cut down all but the last...
Cornwall. It rained all day yesterday and is repeating the exercise again today plus a stronger wind. Grey, dull, boring, wet and windy. Luverly!
Hydrangeas should be thinned by 1/3rd each year. The site you describe does not sound like an ideal position to put plants of any kind. If you...
I have been snooping around the garden. Explored my winter flowering honeysuckle and found buds forming, better than that, I found some tiny...
It is pouring!
Well that was an interesting AGM exercise. 7 of us were voted in as trustees, much more complicated than I thought it would be but we got there....
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Robbie has been signed off by the vet. Now he can have a bath, bucket has gone. Just waiting for the results of his blood...
It would definitely be quicker to plant bulbs. It will probably take a year or two for them to flower unless you buy them in flower.They seem to...
Morning all. I took Rob for a walk in the morning when he met up with his morning walk buddies for the first time since his surgery. Everyone of...
Thanks Ladybird. It was a very full meeting as the club is still transitioning into a registered charity, property owning club. The amount of...
Another lovely morning, rather a chilly wind. There was a another wonderful sunset followed by a beautiful bright moon. By the time I went to bed...
I have some Dierama, Angels Fishing Rods, growing in a similar situation. Not a grass but leaves look grassy, evergreen, attractive flowers, can...
A beautiful sunset last night and a lovely sunny morning at present. A full day today. 1.Walk Rob. 2.Hairdresser. 3.Mini walk for Rob....
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