bERRY HILLS

Month: August 2025

  • 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…

  • 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 🙂

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 27

    27c today!

  • Plum jam recipe

  • Stone masons create a mill stone by hand in 1966

  • Seed saving

    I am bad at this but I am trying. Current plan is to get lots of seeds into envelopes for spring … Sounds easy but it’s finding the time and also the motivation. Ha!

  • Blackcurrant cordial

    An easy one this: Pick the currants and wash Cover with water and heat When boiling add an apt amount of sugar and mix in. Bottle in sterilised or fridge bound containers

  • Dragonfly

    Just as I started researching whether you can buy dragonflies in, as you can do with bees (seems weird but), I saw an indigenous one over at the barn. YES! As well as being beyond beautiful, they eat clegs. A match made in heaven.