• Food

    Cost of living

    If you go to make an order from Tesco’s you will see a very peculiar thing.  There are branded items which are more than three times the price of their own make, which…

  • Gardening

    A miniature ecosystem

    I have started to work my way into the less explored reaches of the garden.  There have been large numbers of trees here over the last 170 years, and many of them have…

  • Cats

    Saphy at rest

    I went upstairs to put the laundry away and was surprised to see this. To illustrate why I was surprised, here is a paraphrase of a famous Bible story.  When Jesus was a…

  • Gardening

    Cuttings

    With a huge garden like ours, relying on buying all the plants as large ones in pots is starting to get very expensive, so I am having a go at taking some cuttings…

  • Gardening

    Everything in the garden…

    Sorry to keep harping on about the garden, but another lovely day here on the dry sunny East coast, and after more hard work by J and I the garden is really starting…

  • Travel,  Walks

    To the sea

    I’ve been wanting to get out to the coast since we moved in (specifically Pittenweem) but with everything I have had on, I never seem to have had time.  But yesterday I submitted…