What do you do when you want to climb mountains all the time, but you need to go to work an inconvenient amount of the time? Easy. You consider yourself lucky that you work shifts in Scotland that mean you can get up before the sparrow farts, climb a mountain and be at your desk […]
I hate the way my children eat…
I hate the way my children eat…They don’t like green things, won’t try new stuff and squint suspiciously at anything in sauce. If it’s not beige or shaped like a toy, they won’t try – not hardly a nibble. Then splat, splat, splat. There’s ketchup everywhere. Surely it all tastes the same. And they’ll spin and tip, elbows […]
Smells like summer – Ghost Eclipse review
It’s weird. Winter, apart from the Christmassy pine and cinnamon bit in the middle, doesn’t smell of very much. It’s too cold in exactly the same way chilled petrol station sandwiches have no flavour whatsoever. By Emma Royle via flickr However, summer – albeit a chilly and damp version – has arrived and to mark […]
Pushing my EcoButton – review and giveaway
Things I learned from foraging with Galloway Wild Food
Foraging. What’s that? Hunting around for what’s there, ready to be picked up and had, for free? That was the limit of my knowledge of the craft except for some fuzzy-edged images of skipping through fields of mushrooms or gathering brambles for a crumble. Oh and I know what sorrel looks like. But I’m always […]