Adnams Copper House Gin is the best, soft and delicious.
The brewer in Southwold.

Nettles won't survive regular lawn mowing.

One of my tenants got a delivery of tree surgeon shredding straight from the job site on Friday, asked where it could be dumped as he passed my place. Told me he'd had all he needed and the rest was up for grabs on his way home. Another tenant spotted the pile and texted me asking, replied help your...

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Other option is you've started getting rid of cookies?

Our Sainsbury's x 2 and Tesco both do what they call "cooking bacon", it's the bits that mucked up in the slicer and if you rummage through the packs, the bits that couldn't go through the slicer cos the spikes holding it in were stuck in the last half inch. They turn up smoked or not by p...

The butternut I chose for today's soup worked out just shy of 4 &1/2lb of chunks, cooked with 3lb of onions, 3 chicken breasts and pack of cooking bacon(3 X 1/2 inch chops!), plus spuds, spring onions, an uncloved (like a leek) elephant garlic, carrots, stock and 1&1/2 kettles of boiling wat...

Goodness peter, that,s a great crop! You'll be able to keep the whole street supplied if there,s another lockdown. On a practical front what are your favourite ways of using them up? I do gift some :) Soup! One big squash. A couple of pounds of: onions, potatoes, carrots. Packet of "cooking&qu...

........ And i still have one butternut squash in the garage to use up from last year which still, on the outside at least seems to be in excellent condition. These plants are excellent provision for lockdown storage and similar emergencies ! Oh yes! I regularly have squash from the previous year a...

Sainsbury's have green and grey cloth gloves that I find very comfortable, no protection against thorns and not waterproof but very comfy and cheap.

Mine are all dying off now, with ripe fruits.