Garden
Over the last week we've had equal amounts of success and failure in the garden. The raised beds in the back garden are full of sciarid flies (also known as fungus gnats). It seems the wet weather, broken guttering on the building next door draining into one of
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The final day of our cycling holiday and the longest journey of the 3 days. Day 3/3 * Distance: 44 miles * Route: Southampton - Farnham via Winchester * Cycle route number: 23 The weather was forecast to be hot (27c) so we set off early to make good progress before the
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The second day of our trip involved 2 ferry crossings and coastal path views. Day 2/3 * Distance: 29 miles * Route: Portsmouth - Southampton * Cycle route number: 2 After a good nights sleep and a cooked breakfast at the Britannia Guest House we were ready to go. Gosport ferry We
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When we moved into our new house we finally had somewhere to store bikes again. Since then we've got back into cycling and a couple of weeks ago Scott and I went on our first (mini) cycling holiday! Our bags contained just the essentials: snacks, water, suncream, toothbrushes
Our lovely friend Kat bought us a goats cheese making kit for Christmas. She loves eating cheese as much as we do so it was only right we all made it together! All we needed was 4 pints of full fat goats milk. The kit contained organic sea salt, citric
Garden
Building the raised beds was a big victory because it meant we finally had growing space! If you follow my blog regularly you will know that when we moved in the garden looked like this: The back garden was completely paved with large areas of pebbles. It was a bit
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At the weekend we went in search of wild garlic! If you've never had it before, the taste is a cross between spinach, kale and garlic… lots of garlic. It's delicious and I think the fact that it's only available for a few weeks
Knitting & crochet
I've started working on a smallish project to use up some of my ever growing yarn stash. I had wool left over from my Northmavine Hap; enough to make something but not enough for anything substantial. I found the Triangel pattern (Ravelry) - a small triangle shaped scarf.
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On Saturday we headed over to Mill Farm for Lambing Day, like proper country folk. Seeing the lamb was the bit I was most excited about. These little guys were only about 4 days old and the three of them sat quietly with their Mum. These lambs were born at
Garden
I spent about an hour on Good Friday morning hanging out the bedroom window with my camera looking like the village pervert. Despite what it looked like, I was in fact taking photos of the birds. Here's what I snapped: A scruffy Blue tit sitting on the fence.
Knitting & crochet
When I finish a craft project I usually feel a bit 'meh' for a couple of days because my hands are not busy. Last week I was feeling that way because I'd finished my Northmavine Hap. Although I didn't have to wait long for
Garden
A few weeks ago I stumbled across racks of plants outside Waitrose. It was this that kickstarted our efforts with the front garden. At the end of last year we dug up the manky grass in the front garden to prepare the soil for this year. It sat bare for
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