Early morning visitor

I had a visitor this morning; this cat, Smirnoff, owns our neighbours and thinks he also owns us! he heard me in the kitchen while I was making a cup of tea and asked if he could come in for some love. He came up and helped me write my blog this morning, had a […]

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Green tomato mincemeat

I mentioned the other day that we still had a lot of tomatoes, but they were green… and how I have pounds of green tomato chutney left from last year! Then I found a recipe for green tomato mincemeat; here it is so far, tomatoes, apples, dried fruit, candied peel, brown sugar and cider vinegar… […]

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Last crop…

We tidied the garden yesterday and stripped the different plants of their fruit, tomatoes and beans here… not all of them in the peak of condition, but they won’t be wasted! Even those which are spoiled will be put in the compost, ready to provide us with some nice organic material for the raised beds […]

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A particular time of day

Down on the beach, where the River Axe runs into the Bristol Channel in Weston Bay, what used to be called Glentworth Bay, the mud emerges from the sand. It is very dangerous, so many people each year get stuck and have to be rescued, or park their cars which are caught by the tide […]

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