The Big Lad joined his Cub Pack for night of guysin’ and spooky stories earlier this evening. He was particularly proud of the neep lantern we made because it looked like a demon skull and was hi-tech—instead of a candle it had my LED bike light strobing orange, yellow and red. We did try to [...]
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Archive | October, 2009
‘There be monsters!’
26 October, 2009
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We moved Doris, one of our Berkshire sows, into a different field to wean her piglets yesterday. All seemed well, she nosed around, scoffed a few stray potatoes she found and settled into her new hut with its bed of fresh straw. But when I went to feed Doris this morning, she appeared a little [...]
Read moreThe Abbey hassles continue
16 October, 2009
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Despite it now being a couple of months since Abbey stopped out bank accounts and several weeks since the problems were allegedly fixed, things continue to go wrong. We received a letter from Abbey Insurance in this morning’s post, saying that our October direct debit had been missed. I phoned Abbey Insurance and was told [...]
Read moreCurried potatoes and neep greens
9 October, 2009
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When harvesting, we inevitably end up with buckets of damaged or immature vegetables that are not suitable for storage—broken potatoes, slightly mouldering onions, oodles of greens from neeps and turnips, moth-eaten cabbages, fly bitten carrots and the like. These are not wasted. Any unuseable parts are trimmed off outside, then fed to the pigs and [...]
Read moreFor dinner…
6 October, 2009
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…we shall have roast pork with cider gravy, roast potatoes, roast neeps, roast carrots, roast shallots, roast garlic, and a few peas on the side. The OH shall have baked salmon with dill, parsley and lemon. Then we shall have steamed pudding with cream. And we shall accompany it with scrumpy. Yes, we do get [...]
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