I had to use up the last bit of my slow cooker box.  It was a lamb flank and I have never used this cut of meat before.  I can’t…

There was a large dead tree in our front garden – I noticed when we moved in that it was nearly dead, but we left it until this year to…

Saphy does not normally sleep on my bed – but today I caught her in the act. What neither she nor her sister will do, is sleep in this cat…

I felt that the basement was lacking a certain something, so we purchased a second aspidistra. The original plant – called Distra is going strong – he was pretty small…

Today we went to the south lakes.  I have always wanted to drive round this area without the motorway, so today we drove out on the old A6 and then…