The youngest made this stonker of a cake yesterday with minimal help. Raspberry and white chocolate. None of her friends wanted to try it. She didn’t get placed in her class bake off. I feel sad for her she should feel so proud of herself!
Imagine my excitement when I realise a milk carton fits perfect in a toilet roll middle… perfect compost funnel with handle. Massively speeding up the process!!!
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#ecofriendly
#growyourown
A small piece of foil can make your life SO MUCH EASIER! This foil reflects sun back to tomatoes on my windowsill. They haven’t been turned for days. And no terrible legginess to deal with either. Give it a try.
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It’s Winter! We don’t need fresh tomatoes 12 months of the year! Buy tinned or get some freshly harvested winter veg 🤦♀️ Wouldn’t it be nice if media used opportunity to promote local seasonal produce!!!!
Anyone else spend ages moving plants in and out at the minute? This is my kitchen table overnight. I keep singing the Hokey Cokey as I do it in my head 😂
Got a loaf of bread prooving for lunch and another in breadmaker for packed lunches this week. I want to try and get back into habit of making all our bread now I’m feeling little better.
#homemade
#plasticfree
#ecofriendly
My strawberryless strawberry planter is looking quite good! Trailing nasturtiums took forever to germinate. I put some verbena in top with a small lavender. The lower holes have creeping thyme and golden sedum.
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I planted strawberries on this posh planter 13 years ago. It was utterly useless! Any ideas what I could plant in it this year that would keep wildlife happy? Obviously it’s hard to water even with a pipe system. Help!
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Honestly perennial fruit is the BEST investment! Strawberries coming to an end just as blueberries are starting to ripen. Hundreds of raspberries too
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imagine the cost of buying this in a shop!
14 years of marriage deserved a special meal… fillet steak from farm down the road. Mushrooms. Homegrown tomato basil salad. Roasted homegrown new potatoes. Crunchy onion rings. Nom.
Having a port to celebrate passing my final assessment today - I am now a qualified compost inspector! Been saving this special little bottle for years. Cheers!
Plants I have killed recently! Basil looked super healthy after germination then died. Trod on some tomatoes this morning. And a green bean plant died dramatically overnight 😂
The kids made my birthday cake - plum and marzipan. Used dehydrated plums and they worked so well. Nice
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of the kids old birthday candles .
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Just picked up this ‘small’ pork box from a local farm!!!! £40 for two huge joints, a loin joint, 8 massive pork chops and 12 sausages. Absolute bargain and it’s local free range produce ❤️❤️❤️ I’ll ask if I can have it
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next time
This is the big dude who I keep disturbing in greenhouse. Youngest and I think he is a common toad! She built him a little damp dark hideaway so he isn’t disturbed so often!
My in laws insisted we take turkey carcass home yesterday for stock. They didn’t think there was any meat left!!! At least three meals worth for the 4 of us 🙌 Hope you’re making the most of your
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#zerowaste
Can’t afford to take hubby out so I brought the restaurant to him this evening… local steak, beer battered onion rings, triple cooked chips, roasted mushrooms, peppercorn sauce and vine tomatoes. He does so much for us ❤️
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#local
Sometimes convenience is required… freezer tea today. Using up fish fingers as no one really likes them. Chips and peas. With sweetcorn fritters to use ip 3/4 tin sweetcorn. I don’t have energy to cook beautiful homemade food every evening 😂
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#zerowaste
The local farmers sheep are sheltering in this strip of land next to our paddock. Escaping the gale force winds. And nibbling on the fresh shoots on our hedge…
Meat boxes from our local farm are amazing quality, sustainably reared and reasonably priced. I just have to be organised and save cash every month. Cheaper than local butchers. This will last us months and months!!!
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I’m trying to utilise the woodburner when it’s on to cook bits and bobs rather than using electric oven/hob. Tonight I’m trying to roast some aubergines for baba ganoush!!! It might work it might not 🤣
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I couldn’t resist these guys at ALDI this morning! Tiny but super healthy looking! Feeling tad guilty for supporting gardening version of cheap fashion but I don’t succumb often 😂
Starting year as I mean to go on… Home reared chicken roasted with our own cider. Homegrown cauliflower & leek cheese. Pigs in blankets from local butcher. Bread sauce.
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parsnips. Roasties with greengrocers potatoes. Spiced blackberry jelly.
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