Sam Eglington of Garden Farm Produce Yesterday Doug and I braved the steaming hot weather and spent several hours in a boiling car driving up to Dereham in Norfolk. There were a few occasions during ...
How are you? I don’t know about you but it seems to me that 2012 is flying by. I can’t believe it’s May already – you certainly couldn’t tell from the weather! As I writ...
Morrisons' M Savers goodies I was approached a few weeks ago to take part in the Morrisons M Savers Recipe Challenge. The supermarket launched its new range of affordable products in January, wh...
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Busy signing books! How’s your 2012 going so far? Mine has been very busy as usual. No rest for the wicked as they say! I am writing another non-fiction book which has to be finished in just a ...
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Hot off the press! I’ve got some exciting news to report! After a lot of hard work, the paperback version of my debut murder mystery novel Victim Support, published by my own press Norsey Press...
Very enlightening ideas shared by you. It is really a big issue to think upon. If the wastage of water continues like this then the day is not very far when most of the human population will be havin...
[...] hate, the humble sprout. What one person does is to serve up chocolate coated brussel sprouts. One blogger suggests putting them in an old Ferrero Rocher packet ! I thought that the Ferrero Roc...
Hallowe'en pumpkins! Woo hoo! Hallowe’en is on it’s way! Spooky! Wandering into a shop this morning to pick up some supplies, I noticed that the place was stacked high with Hallowe&#...
The last of 2011's tomatoes Autumn is well and truly here, isn’t it folks? I can’t believe it. Someone said to me this morning that Christmas will be here soon and I suppose they wer...
Parasol Mushroom - you can see how they get their name... Doug and I went for a long walk yesterday evening in the woods behind Outwood Common Road in Billericay and stretching up towards Crays Hill....
I got an urgent call out of the blue on Tuesday lunchtime from the Energy Saving Trust which I work with as their Green Voice of the UK. “The BBC want to do some filming with you about saving e...
Not exactly regulation shape! Over the bank holiday – well, specifically on Monday once it had finally stopped pouring with rain of Biblical proportions here in Essex! - we ventured out into th...
My beautiful ginger girlie! We thought we were doing amazingly well with eggs this summer – with both Marmalade, our big ginger Orpington hen, and Missie our light Sussex hen, working hard to l...
Interesting and thanks again – I guess you know about all the pitfalls then firsthand! We are trying to be realistic in assuming that this is probably only ever going to be a sideline alongside...
Family had a gardening business. Based on maintaining gardens for private houses, churchyards, schools and village greens with some landscaping thrown in. We looked at the market gardening side of th...
How weird – we were just talking about this this very evening! Thanks very much for your advice and comments. Doug has just been finding out about all this stuff by talking to Trading Standards...
There’s an awful lot of research required before you go off down the road of obtaining land and selling stuff. That makes you a market garden with a whole lot of regulations including whether y...
Nina tucks into Doug's homegrown lettuce How are you doing? Hope you’re having a good summer. This week my other half Doug and I did something a bit different. We held a lettuce tasting se...
How are you doing? Hope you’ve had a good May and are enjoying June! Our fruit and veg garden is really starting to get into its stride. We’ve got some delicious strawberries on the go &#...
It’s been a busy month on my Frugal Life blog for MSN. We’ve been coming up with all kinds of ideas on how to save money by eating the wild food that’s coming into season now, to ho...
Good point – D. When I write about again I’ll make sure to do that. Thanks again for your suggestion & for getting in touch
Thanks for the info on “Shopping Organic: A Price Comparison” would be even more useful to see a side by side comparison done of the same items in Organic vs. conventional so it is easier...
Hello there! That’s a shame but there are some events going on in Manchester too if you take a look at the site. http://www.climateweek.com/
I’m new to the UK and didn’t know there was a Climate week! Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately I’m in Manchester so I can’t make UK Aware but i will definitely see whats happen...
How are you doing? Hope you’re enjoying the little bit of sunshine (and dare I say it, fog, which we had here this morning) now that March is here. Time to start planting some seeds I think! ...
Apologies – it’s been a busy couple of months so I haven’t updated the blog for a while. A lot’s been going on. I’ve been busy on my Frugal Life blog for MSN lately. As ...
Now, I know that Christmas is very much behind us and all of us are looking ahead to what the New Year holds. I for one have been busy on my blog for MSN, making my frugal New Year’s resolution...
Happy New Year and welcome to Spend Less, Live More with Piper Terrett. The site will bring together fresh moneysaving ideas and suggestions for how to enjoy life on less with archived content from m...
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