“The earth is sleeping..”

I was out in the field on Sunday, pulling yet more old nettles and brambles out of the frosty ground, but I couldn’t get over the fact that it suddenly felt wrong to be doing so. Everything was very still and quiet and when I tugged, as usual, by the base of the stems, I [...]

Beside the seaside…

That’s how it feels here sometimes, even though we’re actually 70 miles from the coast to both the east and the west. But the path through our field is a bit like a cliff path in places, and the traffic on the bypass in the valley tends to roar in a bit of a sealike [...]

Refridgeration

We’ve talked about this and airily come up with the idea (or subconsciously hijacked it from elsewhere) of installing some kind of heat exchange unit in between what will be a cold room (for food storage) and a warm room (spa? sauna? bathroom? clothes drying?) but one of the many items on the list of [...]