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Maybe the most important meal of the day, here's a recipe to get you started in the mornings. This was a revelation when cooked for the...

I was trying to find out about the Ant Boat - a Saxon log boat found in the River Ant in NN because I thought it might have been made of...

This has turned into a 5-day a week blog but today there is this small extra one. I started to write as a way of keeping in touch with...

April finally lived up to its reputation for showers but a lovely walk to collect cones from the Scots Pines nearby was completed before...

George's Nanny, Lillian, made the most wonderful pork pies - the first I ever tasted not from a shop. I am hoping he is able to track...

It is asparagus time in NN and as well as it being in all the supermarkets you can buy it in a number of laybys, farm shops and roadside...

Seated Portrait of Dora Maar - Pablo Picasso 1939 I'm conscious that many of my savoury recipes include meat. Whilst I love vegetables...

I didn't grow up with pets (apart from the school hamster one holiday and who disappeared into the sofa) and it wasn't until George was...

This week we have spent time in the garden using the willow rods we cut last week. Having decided to create a new piece of garden, some...

You know when you wake up just a little earlier than normal with a question emerging from the mist of your sleep that then triple jumps...

When I sent this recipe to some family as an attachment to an email a couple of weeks ago it was to let them know that we were OK in NN,...

Photo: TheOtherKev Yesterday the cockerel on the weather vane was facing to the east. This means the wonderfully warm weather of recent...

I hope that you all had a good weekend and you all seem to have enjoyed the guest blogger on Friday. How did your version of the cake...

Courgette, Lime and Pistachio Cake I have the honour of being the first guest writer on Martin’s blog. It is not easy for him to part so...

What a lovely day it was yesterday - warm and sunny and perfect for cutting willow stakes from a plot nearby (with the landowners...

As first cooked by me from Delia Smith's Winter Collection. The first time I cooked this I couldn't believe that such an odd looking...

We all exploit tenuous links when it suits us - "I danced with a man who danced with a woman who danced with the Prince of Wales" was...

Roads is the title of a poem by Edward Thomas, a man born in Lambeth and educated in London, who moved to and loved the countryside. His...

Growing things is in my family background. On my father's side my Great Grandmother was a market gardener on Hounslow Heath (famous for...

This was an early emailed post to my family. The recipe is very simple but looks good. Great as a starter but equally welcome for lunch -...