The sea kale is up on the beach. Every year, come March, I wonder where it is, and panic that maybe it is not going to appear this spring. And then up through the shingle come those dark purple shoots, frilling out into glaucous green leaves that over the course of a month or two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Homemade book’
6 MAY 2009
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged Derek Jarman, grapevines, Homemade book, raised beds, Sea kale, work on garden on May 5, 2009 | 17 Comments »
27 APRIL 2009
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged apple blossom, garden, garden design, Homemade book, potager, raised beds, recycling wood on April 26, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Forgive me, please, for the recent hiatus. I blame this case of Blog Neglect on a combination of camera headaches, post-holiday work backlog, and the weather being just too damned good to do much of anything that involves being indoors in front of a computer. I love this time of year. The weather in our [...]
8 APRIL 2009
Posted in 1, tagged blowing eggs, Easter, Easter egg tree, Easter indoor gardens, Homemade book, homemade projects, Simnel cake on April 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been busy with visitors this week – very happily so – and we have more on the way, so this will be a short post. The house has been a hive of activity, with Mary and I baking Easter cakes and biscuits, blowing and decorating eggs, making Easter cards and putting the finishing touches [...]
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MY CURRENT BOOKS
The paperback edition of The Wonderful Weekend Book: Reclaim Life's Simple Pleasures
(John Murray £8.99) is now out
... and there will be a lovely new cover for the paperback of Homemade: Gorgeous Things to Make with Love
with Ros Badger (Collins £12.99), out in May 2010.
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