Sid Squirrel

Vegetable Soup & Bread Rolls

Recipe below uses tomato Passata or original recipe by James Martin uses a can of chopped tomatoes, pasta and lentils. Our version has no lentils or pasta – more a vegetable soup than minestrone. Passata could be made using Mediterranean tomatoes from a shop/market. We used home grown cherry tomatoes. To make Passata, we put […]

Its not just big cats that get stressed

Last few days feared might loose our little tom cat long before his time and the reason been told is stress. He’s crossed his little legs to the point he couldnt go and needed a small but possibly life threatening op to help him out – worrying because he’s overweight. Sorry to talk details but […]

Harvesting Chambourcin grapes and Gesloten Kas Technology

Harvested this weekend two small rows of Chambourcin grapes – a red grape suited to a less sunny English climate. Even harvesting the grapes in October – they dont seem to be so sweet but told by the person who planted them that they will produce higher sugar levels than other grapes over here. […]

Little bird flying high, dropped a package from the sky..

Maybe farmers will be – thanking God, for the black gold in their farmyards. “The glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris has a transparent coating that has an anti-fouling effect upon exposure to natural light” (www.japan.go.jp) Dr. Akira Fujishima, a Japanese researcher, discovered that photo-catalysis forms the basis of the […]

a good list

Sometimes save links to think about when have more time, not for anyone else – but seems a good list. If this helps someone else it must be good thing. Life happens. (more)

Native Wisdom – Wind Song

Sound

Wrote this little while ago. We’re just observing, things will get better but maybe not strait away. Not sure if its sound or smell first notice when wake up. My small black cat, usually leaping up and down waiting for food. Sometimes very early he paws the window to wake me up then walks in […]

The biggest little farm

nordic magic

Vinyl

Before the virus arrived, went to an auction in a barn and bought several boxes of vinyl LPs for £11s. No one else wanted them. They are solid, maybe same era as records with dog logo – someone’s collection – not music but bird and whale sound tracks. Bought a record player with possibility to […]

Food – why remaining connected to Europe is Crucial

Fresh fruit, vegetables, meat all may become effected by a ‘No Deal’ Brexit and leaving the European Union and the Supply Chains breaking down or getting held up and fresh foods perishing. Its no longer just about taking away the future of the next generation to travel and live where they want to without borders […]

Besides the Sea – Italy

Autumn Days – Beautiful Woollens

Snoops

Tomato season of 2019 over

As the weather is becoming little colder at ends of the day and damper too – this weekend have emptied our small tunnel and wooden greenhouse of tomato plants and washed down the floor and glass to try and drive away resident small spiders and snails looking for somewhere nice to overwinter. im sure they’ll […]

La Mairie – Saints En Puisaye

Thinking about summer, we stayed in small French town on our way to Switzerland. Somewhere on the east side of France. We arrived very late as struggled to find the campsite but did find a lovely place to eat and very unsuccessful putting up our tent on rock hard ground. There was some cussing and […]

Beech nuts

we were sitting underneath a big beech tree for shade and heard the beech nuts dropping faster and faster and first thought the heat but the beech nuts came showering down faster and faster, pinging on the roof almost as if someone was aiming them and reallised when looked at the nuts on the ground […]

Halloween

Live Supreme Court from September 17th- 19th hear PM committed worse abuse of power in decades suspending Parliament Because many people have so much to say and my own feelings are horror at what a backwards step i think our current Government are encouraging us to take even using laws like Prorogation that havnt been […]

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