I love Michael Mosley – I’ve got a bit of a crush to be honest – I love his programmes and how he puts himself forward as a human guinea pig so often. One of his programmes however did slip past my attention and that was the one about intermittent fasting and calorie restriction.
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Because of my pregnancy I’ve hardly been up to the allotment since last year (it’s at the top of a very steep hill). I braved it recently, just to see how much clearing up I needed to do before planting new stuff out this year and was pleasantly surprised.
A while back I had a stab at making sourdough bread and it was quite successful at first and then the temperatures in the house plummetted and it was so hard and took so long to get any dough to rise that I gave up. Now we have a spanking new kitchen and the house […]
I’ve got my greenhouse stuffed full of tomato plants and got my very first tomato of the year today!
We took on an allotment last year – around the end of the summer – but due to my operation and then the weather, we left it unattended and nearly got kicked out for this very reason. I planned to start the year on a positive and went up on the 2nd January and despite […]
People often liken my elasticated button bracelets to those edible bracelets and necklaces you could get in the 70’s and 80’s – not sure if you can still get them. So imagine my surprise when I came across this shop called Andie’s Speciality Sweets on Etsy selling edible buttons!
I’ve just re-dsicoverd my River Cottage Handbook No 2 – Preserves by Pam Corbin. I forgot I had this book! One of the first recipes listed is for Green Gooseberry Jam with elderflower and I think I’m going to attempt to make it at the weekend. Our gooseberries are doing well despite the caterpillar attack […]