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Monthly Archive March, 2008

What’s Good-What’s Bad

The week in review…

Changi Airport, Singapore
1. Bin end Sancerre-grab it while you can
2. The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre-still good 5th time around.
3. A Passsion for Angling dvd-exquisite photography and a reminder of times gone by.
4. The kitchen garden; ready for business. Roll on the summer.
5. Chilli growing; forty five plants and growing…
6. www.planetrock.co.uk […]

Cabbages and Kings

Growing cabbage/how to grow cabbage

Dumplings For My Mother

How to make Dumplings

Forking Potatoes

How to grow/dig potatoes

Earth Hour 2008

World Earth Hour 2008

Beef Stew and Raised Beds

Hello to Spring, Farewell to Winter….

Having drunk more Sancerre than I probably should have done last night I decided the best way of clearing my head would be to do an honest days digging in the kitchen garden. There was the small matter of a wind blown polytunnel to see to first, it was two smaller […]

Whisby Nature Park

Whisby Nature Reserve, Lincoln

North Sea No-Fishing Zones

Restricted fishing zones in the North Sea

Lamb Boulangere

A French Brasserie Classic…

Having resigned myself to a day indoors yesterday I decided to have my main meal at lunchtime and because of the heavy snowfall (for England, anyway) I wanted something comforting.
It’s not often that I can be bothered with cooking a big meal for myself. Living alone makes it impractical most of the […]

Bank Holiday Blues

Snow for Bank holiday, England