So there I was last night, sitting at my desk in the front room all alone with the cats, uploading web pages to the FreeFrom Food Awards site as the category winners were announced. You could have heard a pin drop…. Meanwhile, the virtual me was being viewed 492 times (according to Vimeo)… and that, …
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Rain……
(If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog as the email notification does not include the video.) Yes, real, live rain – can you hear it? Well, to be honest, we didn’t get that much rain – nowhere near as much as our parched gardens need, but still …
Apologies……
Apologies to regular readers of my blog for the lack of recent posts. Christmas came and went but was hotly pursued by the judging for the annual FreeFrom Food Awards which has always happened in my house in Lawn Road in North London. Three weeks – five days a week – 600 odd products – …
Hacking bracken and looking to the future
Dorset in January… Well, Dorset in January if you happen to live in the middle of a wood where the bracken and fern are rampant and where the deer decimate anything which does not have vicious thorns to protect itself. Believe it or not but there is a rather fine hamamelis tree buried under that lot. …
Isokon joins the blue plaque elite
Casual visitors to Lawn Road last Monday might have been surprised to see our Grade 1 listed building, the Lawn Road Flats, surrounded by a sizeable group, sipping prosecco and munching on cupcakes while obviously waiting for something to happen. And something was indeed about to happen. Our very own blue plaque was about to …
Partying….
August, theoretically a month of rest, seems to have been particularly hectic this year… However, we did take a day off last weekend for the traditional summer party, blessed this year by the most glorious day. (Last year we were all huddled in the kitchen around bowls of very chilly looking cold collations…) This year’s offerings …