Some Lovely Garden Colour
Some brightness as the days get shorter and the leaves are beginning to fall…

Our entire apple harvest made one yummy crumble


Unfortunately the photos from this old post have been lost We are getting used to this new way of living, going to town one day a week, working outside when the sun is shining then coming in to work on our computers and read beside the stove in the late afternoon. Looking through the food…
Note: not all of my images made it through the import process, some were lost in a photo sharing program I used to use. This spring there were really beautiful whitethorn (hawthorn) flowers to be seen across the countryside. Our own whitethorns were not as spectacular as last year and I have been told that often…
I received the newsletter (copied below) from the good people at Food and Water Watch – a watchdog site in the USA that enable people like you and me to make a difference on matters that concern us – safe food and water for the generations to come as well as ourselves. Being an “armchair…
I have some really beautiful neighbours, they are not nosey, they don’t have loud late night parties and they never ask to borrow the lawn mower…
Unfortunately the photos from this old post have been lost It’s amazing, we have just had 3 full days of sunshine! We are not talking about just a bit of clear sky every now and then, we are talking about three whole, entire days of sunshine, from sunrise to sundown. A German friend noted on…
I am reading a book by John Perkins entitled The Economic Hitman and so recently I signed up to his newsletter. This is the most recent newsletter and I felt the urge to share it… Peace I’m in Istanbul, a city that has seen its share of war. Today Turkey is greatly impacted by the…