I’m sitting here at quarter past nine on a Saturday morning wondering whether I ought to be going out for a run, making a start on my freelance work this morning, tidying the house or perhaps tidying the back doorstep for the milkman (as of last Monday, we now have organic milk via our local [...]
As I type, I am looking out of a window and I see a porcelain-blue sky, I hear the ascending twiddles and musical turns of blackbirds and finches, and I smell the mouth-watering aroma of the leek and potato soup that’s currently bubbling away on my hob.
Yes, as I type, I’m in a bit of [...]
We’ve been working on clearing out an overgrown corner of the Smallest Smallholding so we can have a Mediterranean-style eating area with loads of wildlife/bee-friendly, drought-tolerant plants. It gets sun pretty much all day and the soil is incredibly poor… but that’s OK for some plants! A massively, huge, immense job but I’m determined to [...]
Continue reading about New Mediterranean Style Eating Area - Chapter 1!
This post was written earlier this week - sorry about the delay!
I’ve had to swap my days at work this week because at 4am on Monday morning, I was wide awake with a dodgy back that spasmed and would not let me rest. At 28, this is a muscular problem that I’ve lived with for [...]





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