Hello everybody and welcome to my new website This site is home to my beloved blog which I started back in 2006 and is still going strong. As I write my first post in over one year, so much in the landscape of our lives has changed. We are in a global and personal lockdown […]

I figure that my generation and older are maybe the last ones to be able to do stuff.  By stuff I mean simple, everyday things like cook a meal, make a loaf of bread, change a plus, put up a shelf, knit a snood, put oil in your car, make clothes, alter clothes, sew on

How To Do Stuff: Part 1Read More »

Free food, yes it’s everywhere and there’s no need to be afraid of it. Autumn is, without doubt the most exciting time for food lovers in our country as our temperate climate lends it self so well to an abundance of fruits and nuts practically weighing down heavy boughs and begging to be picked. Apples

Nutty about NutsRead More »

  Real bread, here we go again. Bread, it’s the one thing that people will hold on to for dear life, in fact, just writing this is making me want to go and make some toast right now. In my bread bin a few things reside, nut bread that I make all the time, a

Sourdough for everybodyRead More »

Boletus Edulus or ceps   Much room for mushrooms?   When it comes to foraging our funky little fungi friends, it seems that, as a people we are a little bit scared. With edible shrooms carrying bizzarely spooky names like Trumpets of Death, it’s easy to see why we might prefer to run off to

A shroom with a viewRead More »

Probably the main motivator for most people to go on holidays abroad, so that they can leave the endless cycle of dishes, shopping, cooking, washing up and the repeat cycle that looking after yourself is. As Jack Nicholson said to them lovely ladies he was trying to get into the knickers of in The Witches

That’s a one spicy bean burgerRead More »

Nasturiums are gorgeous looking yokes that either love your garden or can’t be arsed growing in it. If it’s the former then you’re in for a treat every year as they self seed at the end of the growing season and come back with a bang the following year, like Freddie Mercury at Live Aid,

Fermented Nasturiums Seeds and Pesto, mad things to fermentRead More »