Hi-dee-ho! :) No thanks to the 150 or so spam messages in my inbox, here I am, online at last. Apparently I pissed someone off enough for them to want to sign my e-mail address up to 100+ newsletters. I’m guessing they didn’t count on the fact that in 3 clicks, I could run a… read full entry »

I just harvested my first home-grown courgette :9

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 »

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 »