[ad#banner] It’s bizarre the things you can suddenly miss when living in another country. After three years of expat life I suddenly had an urge to consume horseradish sauce. This is odd because I only really ate the stuff during my previous life if I bought a posh beef sandwich somewhere. Suddenly though, without the [...]
Well I had a lovely time in Wales seeing family & friends but wow is it good to be home! It’s not just that its sunnier and a bit warmer – its just great to be on the mountain with all my own projects to potter around with. Saturday was the first full day at [...]
Well, feeling rather weird at the moment as I’m visiting my folks back in South Wales. It’s lovely to be with family and friends but I am having difficulty relaxing my ‘save everything’ habits. It’s the little things I’m really noticing. My folks are lucky having a 1/2 acre garden so do grow some of their [...]
Planting, Sowing, Harvesting & Other Things To Do in the Vegetable Patch. Sowing in December Beans – French & Broad Garlic Peas & Mangetout Radish Planting in December Cabbage Cauliflower Fruit trees Lettuce Onions Spinach Harvesting in December Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Celery (individual stalks) Chilli’s Leeks Lettuce Jerusalem Artichoke Horseradish Parsley Peppers Spring Onions [...]
Phew, I did it – I’m now a wordpress.org, not a .com blog! Well to be honest D did the big bit I got totally stuck on but I have tweaked and think I’m about ready to embark on my new blogging mountain life in a Catalan garden. Think I need to have a lie [...]
Well, this blog is supposed to be a kind of rural diary – about all things green and rustic but I need to have a quick moan about the modern technical wizadry that fuels this cyberworld I’m writing in… I just don’t understand it. I hope to migrate this blog to my own domain as [...]
Reading one of stonehead’s musings on the lack of knowledge regarding the natural order and where our food comes from got me reminiscing about our early days in the Catalan countryside. Three seperate incidents made me realise just how far removed we urban types seem from the food chain and how daft Spaniards often think [...]
