This weekend I was hoping to get outside to do plenty in the garden and then write about it here. Unfortunately the weather has been horrible so I did hardly anything. This has left me with a serious case of "blogger's block" and nothing to...

I know it is not very socially acceptable, but I do like garlic! My favourite has to be whole cloves roasted in olive oil - these are great with salad or with roast vegetables. Ever since I have started growing vegetables I have grown garlic. Most...

Yesterday, rather than spending the day in the garden (as I probably should do) we took a trip up to Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. Every year during November and December, hundreds of grey seals come up onto the beach here to give birth. We...

Of course at Halloween there are a lot of pumpkins around, but I am always surprised how many people simply carve out their pumpkin lanterns and throw the actual flesh away. After all, you can make pumpkin soup, and.....um.... well I am sure there are...

When we moved to our current house we inherited a hazelnut tree. Hazelnut trees have several trunks and are actually more like a large bush than a tree. The tree that inherited was all but dead apart from one trunk, so we decided to cut it right back,...