This the outline plan for my fruit and veg garden at home, if I manage to get an allotment in time then I will be expanding on the berries, root vegetables and beans. As it is this selection should keep me and Debbie well fed through much of the year....
I’ve always enjoyed family meals, but now that I’m doing the cooking I find them even more rewarding. Today I spent a good couple of hours making a fantastic roast chicken with Yorkshire puddings and veg, the vegetarians has herby Yorkshires instead of meat and I made extra puddings to...
I’m gradually extending the range of foods that I make myself, getting closer to the raw ingredients and more in control of the quality of the meals that we eat. I’m also lowering the cost of the meals and I hope everyone is enjoying them as much, or better than...
Dad died eight years ago today so I’ve been looking at photographs, re-reading my diary from that time and reading the blog post that I wrote at the time. I’m so pleased that I have those memory aids to keep his memories alive in my mind, to make sure that...
Today was the kind of day that I really hoped to be enjoying during retirement, one of those rare days when my body is working, the weather is fine and I have the time to hike, retirement makes two of these variables more likely and it’s working out that way. ...
Every year we write a family newsletter that get’s included with the Christmas cards. I’m not a huge fan of swapping cards, but I do love it when we receive newsletters, even in the Facebook era they are richer and more personal. For the last few years I’ve been writing...
Having spent the morning with Tess on Sunday, I got the opportunity to spend the evening with Anna and Thom today, learning – nothing – about student finance from a a nice young lady from Student Finance England, who seemed to know only the information on her slides, referring almost...
It’s been a while since the last time spent quality time with Tess so I was really looking forward to today and it didn’t disappoint. We met up at Caffe Nero and went to Buckshaw Village Cow Cafe, to meet Neil and Emma. Neil is a sergeant in the police...
I was up nice and early and headed off to Caffe Nero but the sun was out and I had itchy feet, so I left after an hour and went for a superb beach walk. The wind was very strong and the beach very wet, perfect conditions for ‘sand rivers’...
It’s been another unsettled day, lots of rain, wind and hail, interspersed with glorious sunshine puncturing the clouds to create magnificent vistas and I’ve been lapping it up for most of the morning, but I over-tired myself by mid afternoon and started with a migraine that’s been difficult to shift. ...