I decided to have some cauliflower with my salmon for tea — there was a nice big cauli in my veg box this week — only after cutting in to it I discovered a green caterpillar. I am not normally the sort of person who washes vegetables unless they’re visibly dirty, but I think on… read full entry »

Aha, I did something a little strange last night. I “went out”. It’s a funny concept, not one I’m overly familiar with. Local blogger Stuart, aka ‘wonkotsane’ — an old school friend of Karl’s — invited Karl and I out for a drink to celebrate his lovely wife’s birthday. Despite a) not being a drinker… read full entry »

I managed to rip my favourite pair of trousers on the back of my bicycle pedal (lol, I wrote peddle) a couple of weeks ago, so much so that they only thing they’ll be good for now is turning into scruffy lounge-about-the-house shorts. I went to buy a new pair yesterday, but the closest match… read full entry »

You know it’s funny, I was contemplating taking part in the NaBloPoMo again this year, and yet here I am barely able to update once a week, let alone once a frickin’ day! It’s not necessarily for any set reason; work has slowed down a little — at least enough for my keyboard to stop… read full entry »

I just harvested my first home-grown courgette :9

After the piss-pouring rain put a damper on my pottering about in the garden, I decided to do a spot of baking. I don’t have much in the way of ingredients so I made scones, which are about the simplest thing you can bake. I found the original recipe in the Vegetarian Student Cookbook —… read full entry »

I have quite a lot to say about my experiments with food and gardening of late but I’m a little concerned about scaring off the majority of you who’re here to read the geeky bits. As I don’t have the time to start and maintain a separate blog it’s a case of “tough titty”: you… read full entry »

I realised last week that I’d not updated you all since my post from March where I contemplated doing a spot of gardening. Well, t’was not long after that I turned my bathroom into a makeshift greenhouse for a variety of seedlings, etc. I have still got the outside plastic one, but find that if… read full entry »

I decided — a spur of the moment thing — to do some baking today. It’s been a while, but after raiding my Mum’s for baking tins and a reminder about ingredient quantities I set to it. The cake itself is based on a traditional British pound cake, so named because it was originally created… read full entry »

With the new house having a garden, Karl and I are both keen on doing a bit of planting and in my case, growing vegetables/salad stuff that I can fill my fridge with. As neither of us have actually done much gardening before it’s all a big experiment really. Today we ventured out into the… read full entry »