Travelling

The pink super moon woke me up last night, very large and low above the Down on its journey, partly hiding behind our fir tree. With the family grew up with mostly drove to the South of Europe by car for three weeks sun and sea. These holidays began with painful typhoid jabs some weeks […]

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Wool

“Today, we’re surrounded by ingenious gadgets. We don’t grow the peas or raise the chicken that we serve for dinner; instead we hunt and gather in the grocery store. We shop online to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for our clothes and blankets” Helen Fisher

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Ainsley’s Family Recipes

Ainsley Harriott’s Jamaican Ginger Cake with Lemon Icing (and sparkles). This was meant to taste better if wrapped and stored for a day before eating. This was from a tv programme about recipes handed down from one generation to another. Another recipe was – Eccles cakes – made using a saucer to cut a circle […]

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Greenland

“Greenland’s left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party has won the parliamentary election for only the second time in more than 40 years. The party won 37 percent of votes in Tuesday’s snap election, compared to 26 percent in the last election. This has sent shockwaves around the world as the result of the election holds far-reaching […]

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