Path to Self Sufficiency

Good Lord, it's been a busy old time. Hardly have time to draw a breath, getting behind on the gardening work and have loads of catchin...

As we came home quite late last night from the festa, I noticed a small object outside our kitchen door. At first I assumed it was a dead m...

Here comes my second post of the day. First of all I want to say a very big thank you to the following people for sending me seeds: Beck ...

I'm a bit busy with other things at the moment, so again just a quick post with a few photos from the last week or so. First the kitten ...

Well cat grandparents at any rate. Our model daughter hasn't yet decided to curtail her career. Yesterday I woke up with a splitting h...

Although we don't have any pressing commitments most of the time we do try to stick to some sort of a routine every day, just to give ou...

Like the Italians I'm always on the look-out for free food to be gathered from from the wild. Whatever the season, there's always s...

Actually two appeals. Firstly, so far I have always refused offers of empty jars, thinking I've got so many clattering up our cantina al...

Well, again some technical problems forced me into a short break from posting on this blog. This time it was a virus on my computer. A pop...

The weather since the last post has mostly been good, albeit cold at night. The exceptions were the 7th January, which was decidedly unplea...

Well the end of 2008 is nearing and it’s time to reflect on the past 12 months. First of all an update on the events of the last couple of w...

In the words of Albert King and other Blues greats, I must have been ‘born under a bad sign’, ‘for it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have n...

This is our latest house mate up there; we call him Garfield, because he is the spitting image of the famous cartoon cat. He does not seem t...