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Appelmoes maken
A Dutch fave and easily done, planning to fill up the ex-mayonnaise jars. Ingredients (can be scaled up obvs) 1 kg apple 2-4 tablespoons sugarrrrrrrr 1/2 lemon juice 100ml tap water Receipe Clean, peel, core the apples! Chop apples, add to pan with lemon juice and water Cook to boil then simmer 15 mins, stirring…
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Floris redux
Whilst Floris stormed in a few weeks back, its effects are still being felt. there’s a lot of broken or partially snapped branches in trees, slowly coming down. Plus a fir has now come down on the back fence and I know for sure it wasn’t that bad before. It’s all good though really, more…
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Bullfinch
Today’s reward was a little male bullfinch, either doing a mating ritual or feeding a kid. Very cute to see. Glad i stopped.
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Another excellent day
John came round for an excursion and the beauty of the sunlight led to us first standing in the courtyard puzzling at the things we could see, so then we had to take a walk around the field as well. When he first visited, I wasn’t sure how frail he was so i hadn’t pushed…
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More swallows
There just seems to be more and more swallows every day at the moment, it’s so great watching them wheel around in the sky. They were teasing the poor buzzard again too 🙂
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Hedgerow jelly recipe
1 kilo crabapple 1 kilo mixed berries eg goose / black / blackcurrant / rasp / plum 1 kilo sugar water Wash crabapples and chop roughly, not necessary to core or peel Wash berries, put with crabapples in a pan, cover with water, boil then simmer. Stir to mix it all up and make it…
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Nature’s reward
On my sister’s bday back in May, the niece said she would get nature’s reward and then there was a rainbow. I liked the concept as well as the execution! Pretty much every day here I have nature’s reward, which is heartbreakingly good for me and my mental health. Together with the joy of the…
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27
27c today!
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Plum jam recipe
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Stone masons create a mill stone by hand in 1966