Lucy on August 20th, 2009

Rich and I have been thinking about getting ourselves some bees. Well, why not? Our Smallest Smallholding is now void of hens, and we were thinking it would be good to get into something that would take us a little step further towards the good life. Bees seemed a good answer.
Although they do need regular [...]

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Lucy on August 17th, 2009

Because I haven’t wanted to eat runner beans for breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, I’ve now got a glut.
The runner beans are so big now that they’re not going to make it into the cooking pot. So we go to Plan B; I’m going to have a go at entering them into the [...]

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Lucy on August 10th, 2009

I have to say, summer is not my favourite time of year. Yes, there’s colour and sunshine and spectacular thunderstorms, but somehow it’s all a bit green and mad. I think, what it comes down to, is that in summer, I feel grumpy that I can’t be outside when I want to (for now, work, [...]

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