Bits and pieces by Lois

Green man 2

I wrote something in April about the Green Man, a figure of mystery and myth, whose origins are varied and very old. I mentioned that he crops up when you least expect him, and as we were driving home from buying paint to redecorate, we were stopped at some traffic lights. I noticed a little […]

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Harvest!

 This is just this morning’s harvest… and doesn’t include the cabbage, runner beans and kale we picked later. The apples are russets, and there are cherry and little plum tomatoes.

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Chimneys

In tehse days of central heating it is difficult to imagine what it would have been like to have had fires burning in every room – if you could afford it! These days people love having an open fire, or a nice wood-burning stove, but imagine if every day you had to clean out the […]

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Hedgerow harvest

We went out looking for sloes yesterday to make sloe gin… we found some sloes but we also found hips and haws and blackberries. I have a fancy to make a sort of Cumberland sauce for Christmas using the haws… I’ll let you know how that works out! I want to try and make a […]

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