Damn. They’re back. On the lawn. After a summer spent largely underground happily breeding and eating worms my little furry friends have organised themselves into a formidable subterranean brigade with the sole intention of annoying the heck out of me. So the traps have been set. It will be a battle to the death. And unless [...]
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Holy Moley
Posted in gardening, mole, tagged garden, lush places media, mole, questing vole on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spud-U-Don’t-Like
Posted in gardening, middle aged despair, tagged potatoes on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are many good things to consider when gardening comes into your life. The fresh air; exercise; the huge pleasure from providing sustenance for your family; the desire to make your shed a second home; a cold and calculated need to kill everything which dares enter your precious plot….the list goes on. There is a dark down [...]
Blushing Beetroot
Posted in cooking, gardening, tagged beetroot on September 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Am writing this in our kitchen after a very traumatic 24 hours. You can still smell the trauma. Literally. More on that in a moment. Beetroot have taken over my life recently. My village of Hamsterley held its annual ’Hoppings’ event at the weekend. And for all amateur gardeners a new and potentially rewarding event…a produce show in the social club. [...]
When The Potatoes Ran Out
Posted in cooking, gardening, middle aged despair, winter, tagged comment, gardening, parsnip, pasta, potato, snow, trampoline, winter on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There comes a time when conditions become so bad – so unremittingly awful- that you have to find previously undiscovered inner strengths to help you get through it. Call it primeval, call it survival instinct, call it a circle of life kinda thing. And for a Scot, it presents the ultimate test. Two days ago [...]
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