Wednesday, 9 December 2020

The Courtyard Dairy and Camphill Trust

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It has been quite a while since I have driven up through the Yorkshire Dales and even when I did do the journey for work I rarely had time t...
Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Tuesday 1st December - Lockdown - Day 27 - Allotment Update

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 Well, tomorrow the present lockdown is over for me and I go back to work, so after a lovely walk with a friend this morning I went up to th...
Monday, 30 November 2020

Sunday 29th November - Lockdown 2 - Day 25 - Home Grown ingredients in Tortillas

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After podding the beans yesterday, today was using them in the tortilla filling for lunch. We also used home grown onion, and home grown tom...
Friday, 27 November 2020

26th November 2020 - Lockdown 2 - Day 22 - Pumpkin Chutney

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Yesterday, I set to and made a batch of pumpkin chutney (well from what is to be honest an orange coloured squash!) The first task was the p...

27th November 2020 - Lockdown 2 -- Day 23 - Podding beans

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 Just a short blog today to say that I have spent a lot of it podding the ying-yang and borlotti beans that have been (or bean!) drying in a...
Thursday, 26 November 2020

25th November 2020 - Lockdown 2 - Day 21 - Moon and Mars

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 Just a quick one for this evening. I am busy learning how to use my new Omegon LX3 Minitrack for astronomy photography, amd indeed the came...
Tuesday, 24 November 2020

24th November 2020 - Lockdown 2 - Day 20 - Book Review and home grown

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Recently I have finished reading "A Green and Pleasant Land" by Ursula Buchan , borrowed from the library just before the second l...