A corner of France

Gardening is a learning process, and this year I learned a bit more about sweet potatoes.   I bought 8 plants in two varieties from the gard...

Getting autumnal.   Mushrooms, mists, gardening moves from harvesting towards tidying.

I have tried to grow melons before.  The plants grew to about a foot long and produced one melon each.   I have grown a sweet potato before....

It could be that we will be moving house some time later this year.   With this in mind we have been reviewing those things that we might ke...

Racked off the mead into demijohns today.  Initial tasings show great promise.  (See plastic cup to the left of picture)  It should be perfe...

French for mead is hydromel.   I have tried to make it before, but the homey I used was from a supermarket, and the result was not as I woul...

There was a vide maison in the adjacent village last weekend, basically a car boot sale in a house.   In this case it was to empty an old s...