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February 11, 2018February 19, 2018 The Green Garden

Summer: tents, beaches and long lost memories.

January 18, 2016February 11, 2018 The Green Garden

On breastfeeding in public in the UK

January 13, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Visiting art galleries with four year olds

February 12, 2013March 28, 2018 The Green Garden

Making our own Beads of Courage

April 1, 2016March 28, 2018 The Green Garden

Albie’s piratey 5th birthday party

February 20, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Malaysia: The long way home

January 21, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

France: Joy to this world

January 16, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

London: The great city

January 12, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Heading home

January 2, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Cumbria: River deep, Mountain high

November 22, 2015February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Summer: (not so) hot August nights

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Harvest basket at the beginning of winter. We’re in a spot of cabbages and kale, cabbages and kale. I can see the next harvest of broccoli and cauliflower, but boy are they taking their sweet time now that the temperatures are dropping. So we’re left with these stalwarts. Transformed them though, in half an hour, to okonomiyaki and kale chips which we had with some sesame rice, chilli and soy and which the boys devoured. Fred asked last night what was in kale chips. He absolutely loves them, so we dared not say kale. We said olive oil and salt. He was pleased with this and continued to eat a bowlful.
Thanks Mother Nature! This is the quickest way I’ve found to make a new vegetable bed. Well, tbh, it’s quick to make and then long to cook - but if you don’t need it immediately, it’s totally the way to go. No- dig allows nature’s process to create rich fertile soil for you. The cardboard at the bottom smothers the grass, and calls the worms in. It’ll be gone by the time we plant in here. All the rest of it is just decomposition at work. We keep layering on layers of organic matter across the whole garden - like a forest does to its floor. It keeps the soil happy and healthy and active, suppresses weed growth and retains moisture. Win and win and win.
Happiness is.... a beastly home grown head of organic broccoli 🥦
Gesine teaching Albie how to speak some Deutsch. What a joy it has been to host our latest WWOOFER! Thankyou @gesineramm for you energy, enthusiasm and friendship. Go well beauty! 🙏✨🌏
Gorgeous autumn sunset tonight with my gorgeous wonderful boys. Full heart. #lovewherewelive
My morning? Just soaking my chickens legs in a bucket of warm water, tea tree and neem, scrubbing their scales and coating them in antiseptic balm. The scene looked pretty macabre by the end, like some sort of battle had raged. Me - 7. Scaly Leg Mite - 0.

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