Showing posts with label CLIPPINGS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CLIPPINGS. Show all posts

21/04/2018

Saturday Snippets - 21/04/2018

I've just noticed that Amazon have a massive sale on Kindle cookbooks, lots of them are 99p. I'm buying Mildred's Vegan and Ms Cupcake: Naughtiest Vegan Cakes in Town.

Don't soak your dried beans! - LA Times. Shots Fired! The myths and science of cooking, eating and digesting dried pulses. 

DIY Sashiko Denim Repair - Honestly WTF. I wish my jeans had holes in them right now.

The Magical Loaf Studio - Vegan Lunch Box. This is deliciously retro. Design your own vegan 'meatloaf' recipe. I haven't made one yet, but I will.

Hope that the sun is shining for you, we have thunderstorms ahead!




11/04/2018

Permaculture Inspiration

I stumbled across this lovely little video yesterday and it was just the tonic I needed. I'm not usually a fan of plinky plonky heartstring music, but this one made me feel all warm and fuzzy.


It reminds me of how I felt when we moved into this little house and I realised I had some growing space, however limited, at last. We grew a remarkable amount that summer and I was so grateful for the courgettes, herbs and tomatoes - I think we had Christmas spuds too.

This afternoon I'm dragging the kids outside to love bomb our neglected little yard and get it ready for summer.

02/03/2018

Snippets - Beastly Easterly edition

I don't think I've experienced cold like this since I was a nipper back in Norfolk. I imagine I would find it utterly charming if I lived back in the Old County, in a house like this (I'm on a tiny house kick again):



Back in the real world, I live in a city that has ground almost to a halt because the pavements are ice rinks. I do however have a roof over my head and a full storecupboard; and I am not worried about fuel poverty or food poverty or slipping and breaking something and not being able to work, or pipes bursting because I can't afford to heat the house. Back in this real world, I am truly blessed; many other households have these worries right now.

What to do if you see a homeless person sleeping rough in the snow - Metro

Freezing cold house with no central heating  - MSE Forum

Keeping warm in a winter weather emergency (pdf) - Bob Waldrop - if you are struggling with no heating/fuel poverty.

How to run the economy on the weather  -  Low Tech Magazine - a timely read for  a country that almost ran out of gas yesterday.

I've been reading this book and its fascinating, if not vegan:


The chapter on fuels and fireplaces is a comforting read right now. I want a cauldron.