Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It looks as though the garden has just about survived the recent onslaught from the approach of autumn. Everything looks a little worse for wear and most things are a little windburnt but nothing has been destroyed. Despite the onslaught the courgette plants have of course continued to supply us with a steady stream of...
Our new garden water feature has worked a treat. Not only does it look and sound good but part of the intention was to provide some water for garden wildlife. Whilst sat out in the sunshine late on Sunday afternoon we saw first a Willow Warbler take a bath in it followed by a Great...
Not content with all of our garden produce we thought it was time for some foraging. I went out for a MTB ride from Pendam whilst Anna and Morgan spent an hour picking blueberries. Apparently there were loads of them and although it takes a while to pick them they got a whole pint of...
The bees that we have on loan seem to be happy. I’ve taken a look at the hive and there always seems to be a bit of activity around it and there are certainly more bees in the garden. The field behind us is full of clover at the moment too so hopefully they are...
Not MORE courgettes!!!
Our courgette glut continues and we seem to have been eating courgettes everyday – I hope they’re good for us! As well as courgettes in almost every dish you can think of we’ve had nice courgette salads, courgette ratatouille, roasted courgettes, courgette cake and chocolate courgette cake and now we’ve tried ‘courgette fritters’ ala Jamie...
Just some flowers from the garden. The Agapanthus have started flowering, and a stand of sunflowers have appeared from nowhere. We didn’t plant them so we can only assume that the seeds came either from the compost bin or the bird feeders. They seem to be doing well though and are now in flower.
The garden looks nice at the moment. Here are a couple of photos I took whilst installing the new water feature at the weekend.
As you may remember, on our Anniversary day out in Welshpool, Anna and I spent more money than we had planned and came back with a water feature for the garden. We bought it from Derwen Garden Centre which was where we spent most of our day. They were all very helpful and we’re planning...
Our vegetables have been growing well in the garden. So much so that despite giving as many away as possible we still have a glut of courgettes. There are only so many courgettes a man can eat. That is until Anna turns them into courgette cake of course. From whence there was a healthy, organically...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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