Sunday, 28 September 2014

Marmalade and Mozzarella

We've just finished our first week of WWOOFing with Alastair and Suzie at Earthstead. While it's been a little challenge for bodies used to sitting at desks all day we've both enjoyed settling into the mostly self sufficient lifestyle with plenty of time spent in the kitchen too. Making use of the seasons produce is high on the agenda and particularly using up some of the milk that their three...
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Friday, 26 September 2014

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Kitchen Gadget 9. Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer

Picture the scene. It's a beautiful autumn day. The sun is shining, the tree's are golden, your apple tree is full to bursting with ripe fruit. You carefully pick as many as you can, but you know that these apples are not keepers. No matter how nicely you pack them they just will not survive being stored for long. Instead you need to process them, eat some now, freeze some for later, maybe make chutneys...
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Sunday, 21 September 2014

A Tale of Two Cities

We're self-confessed not-city people. When on holiday in or near a city we find we run out of things that we want to see or do very quickly - in particular spending lots of time in large shopping areas holds little appeal. With three days planned for Vancouver we were a little worried that we would hit this problem - but apparently not! We successfully managed to enjoy the bits of a city that do appeal...
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Friday, 19 September 2014

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Chocolate and Salted Caramel Swiss Roll by Mel

Today's post comes to you from a bit of a time warp. Due to crossing the international date line on an overnight flight we're skipping the 17th September this year and going straight from Tuesday in Canada to Thursday in New Zealand. Strange! Since we've temporarily ceased to exist we've got the first of our guest posts for you today. Over to Mel: You will by now be very familiar with the Great...
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Sunday, 14 September 2014

A Weather-full Week

This week for us has been shaped completely by the variations in weather and of course we've been very British and talked about it a lot. Shortly after polishing off last weeks blog post on Saturday morning we left Edmonton and started the journey west. Our flight out of Canada next week is from Vancouver making the aim of our two weeks here to see a much as we could while travelling the 1500km between...
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Friday, 12 September 2014

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Birthday Socks

Do you ever find that you're busy making something that you want to blog/instagram/facebook/tweet about, something that you're really pleased with, that's working just the way you want? Except you can't. What you're making is a present and the recipient is bound to notice if you put photos online - particularly if the person is the sort that has a sixth sense about these things. This was the case...
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Sunday, 7 September 2014

A Postcard from Edmonton

We arrived in Canada on Wednesday evening after months of planning and 19 hours travelling. The flights were long but we enjoyed watching the world go past, starting with the clouds clearing to give us a cracking view of our beloved Islay, to seeing the sea ice and glaciers in Greenland. For the last three hours or so we were looking at Canada itself and that really helped us understand for...
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