If you’re starting to think about doing a bit of spring cleaning you might want to try this super easy homemade citrus vinegar all round cleaner.  Apparently the acidity levels of white vinegar kills most mould, bacteria and germs and used undiluted white vinegar left in a bowl in summer time gets rid of fruit flies! […]

  Since summer our hens seem to have upped their laying capacity and have been supplying us with up to 30 eggs a week. That’s a lot of eggs for one family to get through!  So as well as giving batches away and baking when possible we’ve taken to regular ice cream making. To my […]

  Thanks to John Harrison of www.allotment-garden.org tweeting a reminder to look out for cut-price cream for butter making in the supermarkets post-Christmas, I picked up a couple of 600ml cartons of extra-thick double cream in our local Tesco for the bargain price of 23p each. The thinking was much more ‘rainy day activity’ than ‘bargain butter’ […]

  With the Christmas countdown gathering pace, there’s still time to throw together some homemade edible treats to distribute to friends and family.  Massively popular with my kids, and their friends, is fruit leather. Rolls of pliable, tangy dried fruit, sour and moreish, are a kind of healthy alternative to Haribo sweets. And they’re incredibly easy […]

So, my new appointment to view television is Tudor Monastery Farm on Wednesday nights, BBC2. We visited the beautiful Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex this summer and were blown away. The vast, unspoiled acreage of down and woodland is populated with scattered original and reclaimed structures from the early medieval through to Victorian periods: […]