The Absinthe Fairy

Once the walnuts have done their briney stint for a couple of weeks, drain them and spread them out onto a tray lined with absorbent paper a...

Ooops   So what is a person to do with 15 kilos of courgette and another 20 of deformed patty pan squashes? Light the Rayburn and get co...

Two for the price of one here, 'light' as a feather, shot against the last rays of sun 'light' through the window...

Our house is really quite old, a couple of hundred years old, and as such it has some interesting quirks.  One of which is a lack of foundat...

OK - how to photographer the photographer without just taking a picture of myself in the mirror with a camera to my face. And if I pose so...

I like THUNDER I like LIGHTNING I DO NOT like hail stones the size of golfballs!! These fell in a storm on Tuesday night.  I had just ...

Especially for my wheat intolerent friends: Wheat and Dairy Free Chocolate Cake Ingredients: 3/4 cup of rice flour 3/4 cup of brown s...

  Poor Brendan, as the weather hots up and food finally starts to appear in the garden I feel another supermarket embargo coming on. Today...

and it certainly is. By the time I was back from my walk this morning at 10, it was 27°C, and now we are hiding in the house because the t...

Finished the baby blanket that I have been crocheting for my friend's imminent delivery. I used a thin grey lambswool in conjunction w...