Debbie and I are in Edinburgh today, so the kids are looking after the allotment. We however have been scouting for ideas at the Royal Botanic Gardens, fruit and veg demonstration plots. This is what we’ve seen! We loved these fruit cages and the way that everything had been cordon...
We ‘enjoyed’ our first night at the Premier Inn Hub Hotel, mostly because of the endless amusement, actually all out laughing fits, we experienced observing the stupid design decisions that negatively impacted our stay. It seems most likely that the room was designed by a committee, the dominant member...
I’d planned to have an easy morning today, chilling out in my favourite cafe’s, but it turned out that it was a bank holiday (I’m retired so who cares) so I was straight down to the allotment at 7am. Since Debbie and I are away for a few days in...
I created my carrot planters today and filled them with compost, which is a bad idea apparently as they don’t like nitrogen, but that’s what I had available, so we will see how it goes, we might be eating forked carrots this autumn. Then I used our freely available horse...
Debbie joined me today and so we had the opportunity to do a really good tidy up, especially of the communal green paths that surround our plot and our neighbours on all sides. What made this possible was the Ryobi rechargeable strimmer which arrived yesterday and it worked a treat. ...
I was at the peak of my physical fitness and at my most optimal weight back when I was 25. Now I’m 52 and retired I decided that I would try and return myself to that same position, when I was able to commute 25 miles to work on my...
I spent my first afternoon at the allotment yesterday and it surprised me, in ways that I didn’t expect. I expected a patch of bare earth, in the midst of lots of other patches to be perhaps the definition of unsurprising, but I was wrong. It proved to be really...
I’ve always loved eating animal products, although when I found out about the inhumane conditions in which some of them were raised I immediately switched to free range eggs and more recently organic diary. For meat though for many years the best I could afford was the RSPCA’s Freedom Food,...
In a recent blog post where I started to talk about my beliefs I mentioned that living a ‘good life’ is about balancing ‘living well’ and ‘living right’, this post explores what I mean by ‘living well’. It’s not prescriptive, there are many different approaches to living well that work...
I’m a huge fan of the iPhone (and Android) app Moves, that I’ve been running silently in the background on my iPhone for the last couple of years. It provides a fairly accurate record of where I’ve been each day and how many calories I’ve burned walking and cycling. It...