tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349550302012-01-29T09:05:26.052ZJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.comBlogger2341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-4915077428775009842012-01-29T09:05:00.000Z2012-01-29T09:05:26.061Z

Fundraiser profile page - BT MyDonateMy 2012 Marathon!This time for Bambers Green Group Riding for the Disabled.Please take a look.although 1000 is not enough space to write updates so i think i will be setting up a blog too!

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I've been building to this day for so long & as usual with these things, its been and gone in the blink of an eye. It seems like it never happen, other than when i try and get up off of the sofa after sitting down for a while. The weekend started as we left home at 10:45am, heading to Brighton with a stop at Nymnan's National Trust garden for a spot of lunch and a brief stroll to admire the

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Jenny Bridger is fundraising for Cystic Fibrosis Trust

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I would love to know how to get marathon sponsors when i have no friends to ask in person (feels rude to ask people i don't know that well), little family (with regular contact), no social life & no work collegues.  £300?  i'll be lucky.

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Managed to run 3 miles non-stop, but then my legs could run no more. So i walk..and kept walking - until i reached home...... 5.2 miles later. Total 8.2 miles.

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completed a 5k run on the treadmill monday - furthest i've ever run in one go. part of me feel like it was cheating but then i didn't pause at all (as i would to cross roads etc if outdoors). anyway i completed it. Maybe by doing it on the treadmill first proves to me i can do it and then i should go out and do it outdoors.5km is still only 3.1miles though.lots of new runners at the gym club

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No running since running club on tuesday. No energy, knees & hips causing stupid amounts of pain and frankly no motivation.I did feel a spark of something when i was in brighton on thursday, as we were driving and on the bus along the marathon route, but then i came home did 2 classes at the gym friday morning, which again caused more pain than i would have hoped for. Attempting lunges was more

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I think i should start using this blog to keep track of my running training.I've taken this weekend off.Yesterday's driving and maths/brain activity has seemingly exhausted me, so i've given running a bit of a rest for the bank holiday. My mind/mood isn't really up for it either, so better to break and start again on tuesday.Friday i managed to complete a 5.4 mile route in about an hour. The

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That's it. I'm signed up. It's official. All i need to do now is be able to run 26.2 miles. despite being able to do 2 hours of vigorous exercise classes constantly, running is completely different.Currently i can run about 1 mile in one go - and when i say run - i mean jog!! But i will do it - if it kills me!

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A few christmases ago a friend introduced me to some wonderful litte chocolates which had quotes on a slip of paper inside the wrapper. I was clearing out a draw today when i came across a pile of them, so i thought i'd share them."There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." George Sand. "The only gift is a portion of thyself." Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Music is love in search of a

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My Calendar on my laptop did remind me of my 2nd blog birthday but things have been a bumpy with the mental health and depression this last week. So for the 2nd October (i think) happy blogversary to The World of Me - Jennyb!So what prompted me to get those sad fingers typing?I was given my first ever blog award - Kreativ Blogger. Ok i'd better go through the official blog award procedure, before

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-47272908929858886352009-08-25T07:26:00.005+01:002009-08-26T21:47:05.914+01:00

Ok, so these are not in the order i wanted them to be in really - so enjoy some randomly ordered photos of the last month!This is all the onions, now strung up in the garage. Apart from a few that i'm taking down to Sussex for Nan & Grandpa, and a few little ones that were too small to string.This is how my tomatilloes should look (and apparently Nan's do look something like this) This photo and

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Mum was startled by a visitor this morning in the garage, as she was continuing to paint the (over running) weekend DIY project. When you hear the call "Jennifer! come quick!", and you know someone is using a paintbrush & holding a paintpot, you tend to respond pretty promptly. DIY usually means disasters.....A better call would have been "get your camera quick!", as when i saw what she was

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Another apology. Life just seems to get busier and busier. Not only am i busy mentally trying to deal with my change in size (i gained the 3 stone that i need to, to reach a healthy weight) and the fact that i now have some fat on my body (which i'm not overjoyed about), but physically my body is having to cope with digesting all this food its not used to. That alone leaves me tired but i am

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apologies for no updates recently but i have been fighting a rather large battle recently which has kept me rather occupied.About 4 weeks ago, something came over me, something very strange, amd i started eating things that for the last 3 years have been "forbidden". This in turn has kick started my appetite and now it seems i have unleached a monster! A monster than wants lots of chocolate and

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I decided to split the update into topics. This post is the recent bread adventures with a few cakes for mum's work for her birthday too.First attempt at rolls since my baking revival. Made with Malthouse Flour. Soft and fluffy inside.Supposedly Ciabattas..... but more like a soft white loaf. One with herbs, one plain. Just not flat enough or holey enough to be called a ciabatta.Wholemeal rolls

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No words just lots of pictures of the crocus and Orchids on the final day of Kew's exhibition to celebrate their 250th anniversary.

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Neglected for 2 months. Sorry blogger readers (if there are any left), but i've not been doing too great motivationally. Managed to kill the first lot of seedlings (onions, leeks and caulis). But with mum and david off this last week building a greenhouse (plus preparing the ground for it first) and landscaping more of the garden and converting to veggie and fruit patch, more has been done.

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This is it, the final photos of 2008. Another year done and dusted. Not a great year but not as disasterous as some i've scraped through.So to start with are the final mini Christmas cakes, all package up and ready to go into the hamper. The board's were gold coaster i spotted in sainsburys which were just the pefect size and i bought some cellophane from a local florist. When we got down to

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I finally got a kick up the backside and some motivation to update my part in the blogging world. I was rather suprised to be honest. I knew i had a handful of followers but it seems the numbers are gathering! Juliet left a comment on my previous post asking me what she could do to get my motivation back so she could catch upon my news. Thank you Juliet, i am really touched. Things have picked up

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I haven't vanished - honestly. Things have been a little tough. Hopefully soon i'll find the motivation to do a catch up but in the mean time here's a photo of something i have started doing - baking my own bread! Even better than that, i actually eat it myself too! Well - it's just too tasty to resist really!

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Christmas will soon be upon us, with about 5 weeks to go. I think its 5 weeks, to be honest i'm trying not to think about it too hard. Like many people its not my most favourite time of year. But despite saying (like every year) that we aren't going to "do" Christmas, we still will give little presents etc. I guess we just don't do the big family gathering, huge meal and loads of decorations

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Almost a month since the last post. Kind of says it all really. It's been a tough past month and i don't think its over yet. But whilst there's break in the dark clouds hanging over me i thought i'd take the opportunity to post a few photos of things i have managed to do in the last month.The sweetcorn has finally been cut now, at the farm, i noticed when i drove past last week. There's nothing

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It seems to have been very busy recently but then i think a lot of that has been my choice to make it so busy. It's no secret to Mum and D that i've been struggling a lot recently and as a result i've thrown myself into what ever i can head first, whilst still managing to avoid seeing a lot of people! A month ago i started working at a farm 6 hours a week, just 2 hours on 3 days, well that was

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Well, amazingly it's a year since i started this blogger blog which means that my little laptop is a year old too. So here's a nice cheerful post to celebrate with. It was the Hastings Seafood Festival on the 20/21st September and after attending last year i quite fancied going again. Last year the sun was shining, there was no breeze and the place was buzzing. There were restaurant doing sample

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A few great harvests over the past week! some giant veg and a couple that were perfect size for a single portion stuffed dinner. First came my first little squash.I cut out a lid, scooped out the seeds, put the lid back on and roasted til tender and cooked in the oven. I started my risotto just before the squash was cooked, adding the chopped cooked flesh to the risotto with some sage. Served

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appologies for the messy looking blog. i was trying to change the banner and screwed up......am now i'm so p'ed off it might just be best to leave alone, until i have D's HTML skills.Edit: ok back to the way it was, the banner at least!Edit2: well the new banner is there as best it will be for now, not sure how to change the width of the frame though!

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Sadly the blight has really got hold of my tomatoes in the back garden and this weekend (if not before) i will be taking down the second lots of plants, having got rid of the growbag by the back door a couple of weeks ago.When i took the first set of plants down, there were still lots of green tomatoes on the plant that the blight hadn't reached yet. So i decided to look into a recipe to use them

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Just a quick piccie of some muffins i made quickly one morning before going to D's work. I've been helping out but was told i could only go in if i brought something baked, as they all really enjoyed the cakes i did for D's birthday (the practise runs for the country show). However i was then also told that most of the office were on a fat-free, carb-free, atkins diet of one kind or another! So i

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One of the things i wanted to be able to do this year was to say that i have made my own coleslaw using all 3 ingredients from the garden. By mid july i could say i had 1 out of 3. A month later i could say i had 2 out of 3......And now i can proudly say i have made my coleslaw with the carrot, onion AND cabbage from the garden!Of course me being me, my colours aren't quite your normal coleslaw

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I know it's almost the end of september now but these were taking earlier on in the month so since these were taken things have changed again. For instance one of the grow bags with cherry tomatoes - the one by the back door has gone, the blight finally got too bad, and i think this weekend the other one in the back garden might be heading the same way sadly. However when we emptied the

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I should have posted this earlier - but better late than never as they say. This weekend i known as exhibition weekend in our hourse, but of course like all major events its never just the day itself where the hard work gets put in. For D in fact the hard work is the rest of the year during the run up to it, it's usually mum and i that get roped in for the hard graft on the day. Open 10am to 6pm,

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The tomatoes have had a mixed year this year. They got off to a good start with all of the seeds i sowed germinating in April, not going too leggy and lanky. For 2008 i planted the few remaining beefsteak seeds i had, some tumbling toms for the hanging baskets and also opened a packet of seeds that simply said "tomato" so i had no clue what variety of tomato i was going to get. They were from a

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I wanted my 200th post to be about something cheerful, meaningful and special (so I'll catch up with the stories of my tomato troubles later!) and what could be more fitting than a little report on my day out in London with my Nan.There must be something about when i meet Nan in London that causes bad weather. When i took her to a recording of Ready Steady Cook in January 2007 there were severe

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Well, i finally managed to sleep in a bit longer today. i still woke at 6am but managed to turn over and get another half hour. So now i can see the screen and what i'm typing properly, i can write a full account of yesterday's events.We packed up a picnic and left at about 12.15pm, the show opened at 12.30pm and we'd decided that if we left it until after lunch we probably wouldn't end up

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I've put the photos in a slide show and will tell you more about the day later, right now i'm shattered.

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Well, the day is finally upon us. In fact it has been for me for an hour and a half already! I really don't sleep well when i have things on my mind. It was the same yesterday morning too. Today is the first day of the Countess of Warwick Show - judgement day!So yesterday i spent all day in the kitchen, literally the only break i had between 10am and 5pm was about an hour and a half over

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I know i've been very lapse in my blogging recently, especially of garden post but things have been fairly busy and also fairly stressful. There have been a couple of events, with one big one still to come, which have left me a little preoccupied to say the least.Most of the garden is doing really well. The red cabbages still aren't really hearting up and i had to get rid of one of the whites too

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This has to be my fav bit of the proms. Sadly it was too dark to capture the people around me dancing, but you can hear them anyway!

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......would you find 10,000 people, sitting in a field on a sunday evening, in the rain AND they've paid to do it (some people at a cost of £75 each from my watchings on ebay!). But then with stars of Lesley Garrett and Michael Ball its not too suprising really!But you know what? I would have missed it for the world. Maybe if i had actually got wet then i might be coming at this from a different

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your carrots are yellow? i thought Carotenoderma was caused by the orange pigment in carrots, but it seems not. i only wondered as i have some stunningly tasty carrots developing!!!

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While D was having fun with his mates at an exhibition in Southwold, mum and i went along for the ride but got him to drop up in town, down by the pier, for our own little adventure.He dropped us by the pier at about 10am and had the morning to wander along a very windy pier, the gusty seafront and into less breezy town for a drink before heading to the harbour for lunch. Whilst we were in town

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Decided on a new method to share the garden update photos, including the hundreds on tomatoes we have ready to ripen!!

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I seem to be battling the pests big time this year. After all our rocket and salad leaves being munched by flea beetle, now the vine weevil invasion has taken over.But now i've pulled all that up they've moved on......to my cabbages.....and the dwarf beans.....and the cauliflower and broccoli........oh and spot my other big issue in the photo above - a cabbage white egg. I believe a singular egg

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I had to pick my poor little cauli as it was starting to open and before i knew it, the silly little head would have blown. not too big as you can see from the picture.........more space needed perhaps.

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Our first sowing of dwarf green beans came to a total of half a dozen, maybe a dozen at most. However, the second crop which are some seed that were sent to me by a swap partner in america have done really well. We would have eaten then but due to having access to the neighbours 2 large pots on their patio, the beans on there were a lot bigger and needed using first. That was the plan at least.

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The Great Big Veg Challenge have reached then end of the alphabet and have released a book to celebrate. Ok, so i'm not a mother looking to try and get a child eating vegetables, but i do eat a lot of them myself. Plus, with all the veg in the garden (and now the beans from a neighbour which i am looking after whilst they are away for a bit) i am always after new inspiration. Also, i just had to

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Maybe one more but i certainly won't make double figures this year. Shall have to look up some pruning and care tips to encourage it for next year. Maybe design in a new house/cage too.

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I was going to leave baking this until next week, but due to my car not starting i was feeling rather stressed yesterday. I had planned to go to Chelmsford, as there were things i wanted to look for there. So with feeling stressed and stuck at home, i decided that baking would take my mind off the car and could take out my frustrations with the mixing.I was a little confused by this recipe,

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I'd purposely left a cougette on the plant, as it was already a big large to slice into rounds to have as a side veg. so i thought i'd let it get a little larger in order that i could stuff it for dinner.however when i picked it i found it was a little too large..... (it's a teaspoon next to it) it was the perfect width but just a little (ok - a lot) to long. So i ended up having half of it, mum

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When i visited the PYO in Wimbish near Thaxted in Essex (Grace's Farm shop), although their PYO wasn't huge they had planted a couple of fields of wild flower crops. I can't remember all the flowers but i know there was certainly a corn flower in the mix. The field that caught my eye was through a gap in the hedge, so i'm not sure it was actually anything to do with the fruit farm. I think it

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-80174615242630723842008-07-22T06:26:00.003+01:002008-07-24T09:02:21.694+01:00

I love the summer and the growing season, giving love and attention to my little plants which grow into big plants. Then in return for my nurturing they give me back some wonderful produce which has no comparison to that from the supermarket.After watching Jimmy's Farming Heroes and seeing his visit to the Pea farm in East Anglia i realised why my sugar snaps taste so much sweeter than those

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-84523670551287722202008-07-20T07:23:00.003+01:002008-07-20T07:41:12.656+01:00

I've been playing around with photoscape quite a bit recently now that i have my all sing all dancing camera - well, compared to my last one it is!! So thought i'd share some of my creations.This colourful montage is a combination of the picture i took of the gardens and flowers at Bressingham, when we went last weekend for D's birthday.Here are all four baked items for the show, with one of the

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I found a baked cheese cake recipe in The Ultimate Low Fat Baking Cookbook, that i borrowed from the library. It was the only recipe that i found in there that i thought i would feel able to eat some of too, which was what my aim in getting the book from the library was. Plus i've always fancied trying a baked cheesecake, as i've never even eaten one let alone baked my own.The recipe was pretty

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And the award goes to...................The blueberries. I may get a couple more if they ripen up but i don't think it'll even reach double figures this year. It is partly my fault i think. Firstly i didn't prune it at all at the end of last year and secondly i left that little mesh cage on it and i think so of the berries got too close to the edge and in reach of the birdies. More lessons

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Well none of the cakes came home again! which is a good sign. D made a comments form too where suprisingly the cherry cake faired very well. The worst comments were that it was "a bit dense" and one person comment how the "cherries were at the bottom". There seemed to be few comments on the cookies - it seems they disappeared quickly, and too fast to taste and make a comment! The Almond Bakewell

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Whilst i was tying my sugar snap peas i realised there was enough to have for dinner. They are the sweetest, crispest and most certainately my favourite vegetable after beetroot of course! Then i decided to see how the carrots were getting on, as i didn't think i had thinned them enough, but i discovered some decent sized carrots big enough to eat as "baby" carrots! I decided to trim the

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The garden has got so chaotic now and there is so much going on both there and in life in general it seems that i have decided to stop the weekly photos. But i will still post new developments and photos of harvests which is starting to happen more frequently now.But when i was watering and bug spraying yesterday i came across this! - hiding in the cabbages (which also feel like they might be

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The Final and longest recipe, or rather longest cooking time, was Honey and Banana Teabread.A pretty straightforward recipe, however i had misread it slightly and didn't have quite enough Honey, so i used all the honey i had for the mix and whilst that was baking i popped out to buy some more for the topping. I also had trouble finding the nibbed sugar for the topping. I could only find it online

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-11600082972686761742008-07-15T08:33:00.003+01:002008-07-15T08:43:03.347+01:00

This was probably one of the most successful recipes, but then possibly the most straight forwards of the 4 as well!I didn't have any trouble. Nothing burnt, nothing stuck - i mean they're cookies - how wrong can you go with cookies? They all came out pretty circular, apart from one, so i think these will definately be going to the show. Plus they took the least effort and time.

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Recipe number 2 was Almond Bakewell Tart. I always thought that the jam was red, so either strawberry or raspberry maybe, but this recipe called for Apricot jam. I also needed to add about double the cold water pastry ingredients to make it come together in a ball so it could be wrapped in clingfilm and put in the fridge for 30 minutes. Once it was rested for 30 minutes and rolled out the

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-41655602264245305062008-07-15T07:38:00.003+01:002008-07-15T08:06:33.095+01:00

I picked up the schedule for the Countess of Warwick show last week, with plans to enter the vegetable showing classes (providing i have something worth showing by the bank holiday weekend!) but whilst looking through i discovered the baking classes, craft categories and some photographic categories as well. With it being D's birthday this weekend, he normally takes strawberries and raspberries

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-72034563521721068242008-07-06T08:17:00.012+01:002008-07-06T09:44:27.191+01:00

Well i finally settled on a brand and make of camera, the job then was just getting hold of one before they sold out! The camera i had seen at a price that suited my budget and was recommended by a small independant camera shop was being discontinued it turned out as of couse with all technology these day it was being replaced by a newer model which was already in the shops. So my panic then was

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-15088132145975171002008-07-04T17:44:00.001+01:002008-07-15T08:22:30.435+01:00

 Glamasaurus, from Dawanda featured my American Flag brooch in her 4th July handmade picks today! Blogasaurus » Happy 4th of July!

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Sorry about the lack of photos last week but we were away (more of that in another post). We got back to a rampaging and wild garden which after getting some food in on sunday, we spent tidying up and watering as i don't think it rained here at all while we were away.All tomatoes seem to be doing well.The ones in the front garden had a drip feeder so have grown a bit more than those in the back

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Remember my excitement at the appearance of my first ever broccoli? Well, mum suggested that i picked the first one because it was looking like it was going to start to open and flower, even though it wasn't as big as one you'd find in a supermarket.But as mum pointed out its ok, because there are new ones growing below, almost like side shoots on a tomato plant. You can just about see them in

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I will be at the High Wych Festival on the 12th July in High Wych School, near Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire from 10.30am to 5pm.  I visited the festival last year which was very busy and lots to see so i'm excited to be part of it this year, even if only for one day! more details via  Facebook  High Wych Festival

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"Pat a cake pat a cake baker's manMake me a cake as fast as you canPat it and prick it and mark it with BAnd put it in the oven for baby and me!"Not quite baked as fast as i could, in fact it took a lot longer than i thought but then the recipe i found/used and made up myself didn't have a time or temperature for baking! So that was guess work on my part, and even then i was still worried it

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-9210747146885735862008-06-23T07:28:00.004+01:002008-06-23T07:44:07.915+01:00

Things are starting to grow and ripen now, other than just leaves (salad, chard and kale). The berries are ripening one at a time which although won't give me anywhere near enough for a pudding/meal (i can pop down to Cammas Hall for that!) i don't mind because they're mine, my work, i'm proud of them and that makes them taste even better! plus it's fun to just pick at them when you're passing if

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-42268280334212722752008-06-16T08:03:00.003+01:002008-06-16T08:12:57.782+01:00

Mum wanted to take some kind of dessert with us to the party on Saturday night, so i offfered to make something. After finding a selection of recipes which used ingredients that we already had, she selected this one. The recipe is from Waitrose and was perfectly simple to follow, although i think my tin was a slightly different size to the one they mentioned.The one i used was square and when i

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It was 3 weeks ago now, but i just haven't got round to blogging it yet! 1st June saw the first Curly Kale harvest which i enjoyed steamed with my roast dinner that Sunday night.

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Only a brief update today. I'm so behind on all the things i'd planned to blog about, plus i'm still shattered after a busy weekend so please excuse the lack of description in this update. mini green house with tomatoes and onions and strawberry hanging basket.One of the first fennel looked to have died, i thought maybe the heavy rain had battered it a couple of weeks back but

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Yesterday saw the first day of the Hatfield Heath Festival weekend, with the school fete from 12pm until 2.30pm, the church flower festival and a history exhibition in the URC Hall on postcards and pictures of Hatfield Heath both running all day (and all day today as well). But the bit i was involved in was in the Village hall from 11am to 5pm (and the same again today) - The Art exhibition and

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Maybe it's because its a quiet fairly small rural village, or maybe its because many of the residents are older generations but this morning on a walk to the shop at 7am all but one of the people i passed, i exchanged a "good morning" with and a smile. It really made a lovely start to my day. For 5/6 people, only one of whom i know by sight not even by name, to smile and greet me, has lifted

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Just a little note to mention how delicious those first few strawberries were! as well as the one from the photo on the latest monday update, there were 2 other even smaller berries that were ripe. They were the sweetest, juiciest and most beautiful tasting berries i have tasted in a long while. D made the comment that it would fill a pudding bowl, but to be honest i would much rather have 3

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It was mentioned last night that the winner of series 3 (the previous series) of the BBC programme, The Apprentice is currently working on a project near Stansted Airport.  Mum thought that it might be at CPL Aromas that was featured in the task of the final as that is just down the road from us and near the Airport, so i did a quick google search.  Lots of results simply stating what we heard

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-39895191921677838782008-06-10T08:23:00.005+01:002008-06-10T08:58:22.192+01:00

My first ripe strawberry! it may be small but its the taste that counts! I'd better get in quick tho before any little birdies take a fancy.Fennel looking good although i will sow some more when those in the 2nd trough didn't germinate.4 tomato plants, chard (which i thinned for salad leaves last night) and beetroot. The weeds are not there now either!Kale in the front not quite big enough for

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924464954110007674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34955030.post-11276563204971126672008-06-09T10:06:00.002+01:002008-06-09T10:08:54.751+01:00

I came across this blog via another, Cuteable. I love the way rachel adds little faces to things to tell stories, like when her TV died.Rachael Herbert - Sweet Nothings: Wee carrot - this was the post that Lyndsey featured and lead to her flickr album here. Due to copyright i can't add the photos to my blog but they are certainly worth a look if you like something cute.

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Back after a weeks break, the garden is thriving after a lot of rain but still some warmer temperatures. I don't mind the lack of sun right now, as there are not too many things that need ripening - only a few strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. I thought i'd try a different layout for this week. See if this looks any better and easier to read.The Onions, Carrots, Kale, Spinach, Runner

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I got this idea from Lindsey at Cuteable. Like me (and the rest of the internet world), Lindsey gets her fair share of spam. Where as Lindsey find great hand made crafts that fit with the title of her spam i thought i would use the titles as a starting point for just some musings and thoughts with maybe a few pictures thrown in along the way.Almost all of the spam i get goes straight to my junk

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Just a little note to mention the lack of photos this week. 2 reasons for this really - firstly it rained all day sunday and monday, and then by tuesday i was stuck by illness and have been pretty shattered since then. Don't think i'll make it to town today, certainly won't be driving there! And with the buses running once an hour through the village it means i would be able to just leave town

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Another little feature by another great blog.  It's funny how things come in waves..... thats 2 i've found out in one day! I found out via an RSS feed from the Dawanda blog that i'd been featured on the DIY City Mag blog - 2 blog both worth checking out, if you want to find out about other handmade items and artists.

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Among  the many blogs i subscribe to via RSS is a blog called "How can i recycle this?".  having recently changed me bicycle saddled,  and having seen inspiring things like a hanging basket out of an old deep fat frier basket, i decided to email them and ask if they would feature a bicycle saddle as an item.  The lovely Louisa has posted the question today and has given a link to  both my blogs

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Squash plants are planted out - which variety is which i have no clue now!!! never mind, they all want the same conditions/treatment. Sugar snaps are growing well along with the radishes in the middle. I need to start to tie up the sugar snaps before they do snap! Rhubarb is doing well. I had the first harvest, lunch time yesterday following an intersting discussion on vegetarian savoury

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After Wiggly Wormers finally sent us a bedding block 2 days after sending the initial order (it seems "Ann" didn't pack our order correctly!), we were finally able to get our wormery started. First of all the bedding block was soaked in water to make it swell and break up. This was put in the bottom layer on top of a layer of cardboard. The worms were then emptied onto the bedding block and

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I know we've still been harvesting and using the chard but thats counts as last years produce. So the first harvest of this year as i think it probably is for most people was the salad leaves. Its the Oriental Salad mix that grandpa gave us, he'd sown the whole pack of seeds that he got as a freebie with the paper! i don't think i need to worry about not having enough salad this summer, although

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After another busy weekend in the garden, everything looks neat and tidy. If only it would stay that way! We re-grouted the patio (mum's idea and halfway through she decided maybe it was too big a job. but as i said to her if it was left yet another year it would only be even harder to do next year!) Lots of plants planted out now too and most of the direct sowings are starting to

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Today was a productive but rather sad day. Lots of gardening and tidying was done but a neighbour's cat died in the road at the of our drive. Our next door neighbour was about to take her dog for a walk when we heard her cry out. Although we were in the front garden the car was blocking the view and we were by the house not the road. It seemed to have just died. we don't know the people we

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Blueberry Bush Fennel, Squash and Tomatoes Onions, Salad Leaves and Tomatoes Tomatoes and Beans from the USA Cabbages, Salad Leaves and Parsnips Cabbages, Brocolis and Caulis (hiding at the back), Salad leaves and Kale, Squash and Courgettes - and a Bay Tree cutting Carrots, Parsnips, onion sets (red and white), Kale, Spinach and Runner Beans "Cages/Pens" for squash are ready, cabbages, caulis

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Because my garden isn't exactly big enough to have a large construction like a shed or greenhouse in, i decided to enter a picture of my homemade slug trap. last year i found that the rain got in etc and the beer/dead slug mix got rather disgusting so i devised a lid/roof for it this year. A little bit of artist detailing and my photo was complete! Not expecting to win, but its all good fun!

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I spotted this on freecycle a couple of weeks back. The excitment i felt was possibly a bit on the sad side but then when you see how much the brand new ones cost i think it's justified! Admittedly they come with the worms and bedding etc. But even in a specific wormery online store the rescue pack/value pack which contains everything i don't have and need costs £30, whereas when you buy a full

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A while ago i found this great website called instructables, when i was looking for ideas for my bottlecaps. Here people can upload guides on how to make things or do things, from recipes to recycling to how to adapt electonics and gadgets. Guides can be uploaded in a picture step by step format, or simply using a description or a video guide. They also have regular challenges and competition

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After a particularly bad morning, i arrived home to find not only the 2nd lot of blue ATCs but a small jiffy bag too, on the door step. The customs sticker on the front said it contained 4 magnets, which confused me slightly, in fact almost worried me, as the envelope rattled when i picked it up.So i opened it up to find a lovely package:The first thing i went to check was how many ATC magnets i

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I recieved my Blue ATCs from one partner a week or so ago and i put them away before taking a photo but then yesterday i got the swap from my second partner, Amybelle. Along with the 2 Blue ATCs she sent to blue tea bags too. According to a little translation and research, "Harmonia de Ervas" is "Harmony of Herbs" in Portuguese. i haven't tried that one yet but i tried the Lady grey, a tea i

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It's been all go in the garden and so much has changed and so much has grown hence a lot more photos:Apricot Tree i grew from an apricot stone, now planted in the ground. 3 tier hanging basket with 12 strawberry plants - still on the wall! sugarsnap peas on the patioThe back bed 10 days agoThe back bed now, neatly organised with french beans behind a row of oriental salad mix which are under the

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not my best ATCs by far. each of my 3 partners had one of these: and then i made another one but used the initial of each partner:

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I burn really easily i know that. so why don't i put sun tan lotion on when its sunny? 3 weeks or what ever it is after we had snow you just don't expect to get sun burnt. but i did. we were out in the garden saturday pretty much all day. in the morning i scarified the back lawn twice, then cut it, then scarified it again. Then i scarified the front lawn twice but left D to cut the front lawn

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The brief for this swap was to create a bag from an old t-shirt using a simple tutorial which meant all you needed to do was sew a seam along the bottom of the t-shirt, cut off the sleeves and cut a semi-circle round the neck to create the handles. So i found an old t-shirt i didn't want anymore, set up the machine and successfully sewed the bottom edge a few times to give it some stability, cut

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