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The Best of Berries

That awkward moment when someone takes a photo of you picking berries along the foot path to town and you realise OMG! I've turned into a hippy! I'm not even just picking black berries but ones people...

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Egg-cited!

So we settled the chickens in by virtual of basically leaving them alone then this morning I rushed down to have a look at them, we weren't egg-specting any eggs due to the stress they had been through...

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Chasing Allotments and Organising Sheds

That horrible sinking feeling when you realise you now have a kitchen full of animal feed sacks and there is no room left in the cupboard under the stairs and you've been thinking this stuff should all...

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One Week of Freedom!

The chickens have been with us a week now and have so far delivered unto us 14 good eggs and one soft shelled mess. The kids are grumpy with us for imposing an egg limit in their diet of 2 eggs each...

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Bamble Butter or Cheese!

Autumn is here as is harvest time and so when ever possible I have been out foraging! I have already made two batches of chutney, crumbles and cakes and sauces with the various fruit and veg so I...

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Mary’s 3rd Birthday – postponed

So I am being a bad Mummy and being stressed - we have a broken home at the moment and budget wont stretch to a party outside the home so we decided to postpone Mary's birthday celebration - she is not...

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A Jam Full Cupboard

Last year I foraged and grew stuff and was given apples and green tomatoes and so on and I even bought reduced pumpkins after Halloween (which we are still getting through!). I made pies and crumbles...

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Domestic Sunday

When we are not away doing events, we are trying to have a whole day focused just on domestic stuff. In reality I am often slopping off to catch up on work I can't do with small people around me but I...

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A Weekend of Epic

This bank holiday has been amazing. Below is a picture of our haul and that is not all of it! For me it kind of began on Friday with a trip to UWE to see a friends talk on memristors (resistors with...

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What A Lot of Allotment….

This week we made it too the allotment twice during the evenings and Saturday we were there from lunch time until the night was closing in and as I think that was the longest day that is saying...

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Cheese and Yogurt Making

Last year our yogurt maker broke - in truth it had been not quiet right for a while plus only Jean and Al could eat it. But then I saw that the thermos had been reduced and decided to buy another one -...

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Cheese and Soap and Skillz

At the beginning of the year when we were setting down our New Year Resolutions, me and Alaric realised that we were still stuck with exactly the same stitches for kniting and crochet that we started...

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Tangling it All: Make, Bake, Create

It's March and as I am not a hardy gardener, March is the beginning of my growing year. Which means that we have been along to the allotment and I've (yes me!!!) dug a bed over and harvested a load of...

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Geo Bake Off – Geologist Despair

I mentioned the Geological Society's Bake Off to Jean - this is the result - she's been planning it for weeks! The girls are seriously proud of this 7 cake monstrocity. They have certainly enjoyed...

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Shakespearian Mock Tales

Last night we had the second ever Mock Tales - 2 hours of stories and writing creativeness with sticky non-alcoholic cocktails. They were Shakespeare themed as it was his 400th birthday at the weekend...

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A Flambe Lunch

So yeah - looks like I still can't really cook on my own. I'm fine with popping something in the oven to heat and nuking stuff in the microwave and even things that cook quickly in the frying pan...

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The Jan Recap…

It's the end of January so what has gone on in the household snell-pym in the first month of 2017? For a start there was the end of Christmas, I am still making the last few Advent vids ready for...

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Big Food and Naps

Yesterday I did an hour of work and then went for my 9 am nap, this is supposed to last half an hour and is part of the new regime to make the head injury go away but... I woke up at nearly 2 pm having...

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Country File Live photos 2017

Country File Live was an amazing event with just so much going on - because I was working there I barely got a chance to snap things as I passed - the girls and Al also had a fab time but still felt...

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The Gardens a Mess but BBQ like Kings Anyway!

To sort out our drainage (clue - there wasn't any) our garden has had to be ripped up - I am quiet sad about this but electrics and plumbing where the priorities for the building works and everything...

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