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| THE BLUES |
Monday 30 January 2012
Saturday 28 January 2012
Saturday 21 January 2012
Home made Spelt Bread
My Spelt Bread
For one loaf
21.5 cms X 11 cms bread tin
You will need
100 grams fine semolina flour
200 grams White Spelt flour
200 grams Wholemeal Spelt flour
5.0 ml sugar or honey
5.0 ml salt or to taste
2 packets x 7 grams fast action dried yeast
Seeds, nuts, dried fruit, etc. etc. Experiment!
15 ml olive oil or more if wished
½ litre warm water
Mix all together in a large bowl then knead lightly, only
till mixed into a pliable dough.
Put into tin, you can, if you wish, make three holes in the
top and add more oil.
Leave to rise in a warm place for ½ hour and once it has
started rising put into a cold oven set to
190 ° C, the rest of the rising occurs as the oven heats up. Cook for
50 mins.
Or Leave to rise for at
least an hour, heat the oven to 190°C and bake for approx. 30 mins. Turn out
onto rack to cool.
Seeds for my garden
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| My seeds have arrived for my garden. I buy most of them from Organic Gardening Catalogue |
I am going to start most of them off in the green house, hopefully this will produce strong pest free plants.
I will blog the results!
Thursday 12 January 2012
Gardening has started again!
I have recently bought an amazing gardening book, Organic
Gardening the natural no – dig way by Charles Dowding.
As the weather was dry I immediately wanted to get started.
But of course that illusive mound of ‘well
rotted’ compost that is always mentioned in all gardening books, was still just a heap of last year’s cow s....t.!
Any way I decided to go ahead and experiment ... nothing really to loose.
So I weeded
thoroughly a strip of ground disturbing the soil as little as possible, then laid
on the ‘not so well’ rotted manure and added a dusting of grass cuttings.
I then covered it all with some black plastic and dug it in around the edges and put stones
along the free edge.
I also put a line of card board as a path and covered that
as well.
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| Weeding |
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| Cardboard laid down for path space. |
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| Manure laid on top of ground |
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| Black plastic weighted down with stones |
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| Woozle helping out as usual! |
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| Digging in the edges of the plastic |
I am going to leave it for at least 4 months and then see
what has happened.
So watch this space
in June for the results.
Wednesday 11 January 2012
Thursday 5 January 2012
Simon the travelling Gecko
I had Simon as a house guest over Christmas, what fun we
had, he is always getting into mischief, but always has a happy face, so he gets away with it!
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| Simon exploring the Christmas decorations |
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| He found a safe place to sleep and read away from my four cats |
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| Whoops! perhaps not such a good idea, but it does look very cosy. |
Monday 2 January 2012
Sunday 1 January 2012
My Valentine Necklace
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| Silver wired heart pendant, decorated with a dark blue glass pearl and faux suede. In my Etsy Shop |
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