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2007/8? to 2023

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With an excess of limes and a preference for eating curries there was no excuse really for not making lime pickle. Assembling the ingredients for fermented Hot Lime Pickle. The recipe I chose to follow required 2/3 cup of hot chilli powder. For 30 limes it seemed a little excessive but I liked the idea of minced fresh garlic and ginger.... ....so I compromised on chilli and added a range of other flavours suggested by a second recipe (fennel, nigella, cumin, methi, and curry leaves). The second photo is a bucket of 30 chopped up limes salted and releasing their juice into chilli, garlic, fresh ginger, curry leaves, hing and turmeric. They were later tempered with an oil/spice mix and shovelled into jars to sit in the sun and ferment for a while

Gooseberry Garden

Idea (in the July to-do list) Marked out Posts in and half-rounds attached to bring it all up to level; compost & compostibles chucked in there Horse poo Pea straw Just need to barrow in about 1.5 cubic metres of topsoil (from this pile)... ...and then I can plant out the 6 gooseberry bushes I split from the tangle my bro gave me (varities unknown), and the two blueberries I bought Mr B for his birthday. There will be room for one more - probably also a blueberry (a rabbit-eye; as the two we have are varieties of Northern Highbush). I've left the corner posts sticking up to support building a fruit cage.

Canterbury Plains

Asburton (population 21,000) is on the Canterbury Plains - vaste (by our standards) alluvial plains, created by and still being added to by the braided rivers that sweep down off the Soutgern Alps carrying rocks and silt, and the dust of countless dry nor'west winds. The wind blows in from the Tasman sea damp, moisture laden. It hits the western side of the mountains that form the backbone of our island (north/south, more or less the entire 500 miles), rises, cools, dumps its rain on the west coast and the mountain tops with just enough flowing down the east to feed the rivers and build the plains. Why no plains on the West Coast? I have no idea actually and should find out. They get the bulk of the water. On our side of the mountains the winds are dry and hot and, at the height of nor'wester season, howl day and night, whistling through power lines, burning vegetation, turning farmland to dust and generally driving the human inhabitants slighty loopy. These days the plains ...

Rat - Update.

Mr (or Mrs) Rat overstepped the boundaries on Thursday night. He (or she) found a way into the under-sink cupboard via the hole that brings the water pipes into the house. We think it might have been first incursion as there is no evidence of having used the place as a toilet and there is not scent of rodent under the cupboards. My third trip into town on Saturday was to buy some instant contact wood glue and some expanding foam. Having pulled out the boards under the cupboards I discovered that the floor doesn't quite meet the walls over a distance of a couple of feet, and in addition to the gap around the water pipes, some idiot installed the main stopcock for water into the house right IN the floor level. It has a huge U shaped piece cut out of the floor so that you can turn the lever. They might as well have put a sign on it " Rodent entry this way➡ ". I have to build a box to go around it, as well as squirting expanding foam into the gaps either ...

Fresh Snow on Mt Hutt

Not the best photo. I should have done better on such a clear bright day. My excuse is that despite the sunshine, the wind coming off that snow was chilling (and I had been biking into it, loaded with groceries). The truth is I wasn't wearing my reading glasses so had no idea of the (lack of) quality until much later. Mt Hutt, about 15 miles away, has a ski field. There have been years when skiing continued into December; 2024 might be one of them! We are having a La Niña season, which for us means cooler temperatures. The nights are near to freezing still, but it was probably the reason the rhododendrons had such a spectacular flowering this season this year. Hopefully La Niña will also reduce the risk of a long and stressful fire season.

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Blogs we Read

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Imbolic/ candlemas
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The Diary of a Nobody

Refreshed
13 hours ago
A Scottish Adventure .

Gilet weather.
20 hours ago
My Quiet Life in Suffolk

The Last Week of July from the 25th
21 hours ago
An English Homestead

Old Meat Safe
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Magnon's Meanderings

Jeans; the story continues.
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Yorkshire Pudding

Influencer
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Careering Through Nature

A Red Admiral - You'd Better Salute!
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MY TAKE; doses of Wild YAM

Menoturals; Nature In Art
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Coffee on the Porch with Me

A year and 2 months Later
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Cathy @ Still Waters

Some things are easy to do…..
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1,500 and Counting
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It's A Crazy World

Morning glories and mice......
1 week ago
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ZERO GOODNESS.NEW APP
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EAGLETON NOTES

Going to Glasgow
5 weeks ago
Coming Up Close

Xmas decorations
7 months ago
Life In New Zealand

Farewell My Friends
1 year ago
A Yorkshire Memoir

A Yorkshire Memoir has moved
1 year ago
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MadSnapper
Four Paws Etc
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Eccentric Amblings and Ramblings From Gnat Bottomed Towers

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