I hope you all, like me, enjoyed the spring Mental Health newsletter that was circulated during Mental Health Awareness Week by our Mental Health First Aider team. If you missed it, here is a link – https://sway.office.com/Li3TO3IdQYfnGpF7?ref=email. It’s a great read, so do have a look. I really do appreciate …
Inspired by the posts about Healthy Eating Week, I ditched usual lunch options today and instead had home-made leek and potato soup (with my own home-grown leeks), accompanied by some home-made wholemeal bread. It was the nicest workday lunch I’d had in ages and set me up well for my …
Today – ‘Vary your Veg’ day in Healthy Eating Week – seems like a good day to brag … I mean provide an update on my first year of home growing. Over the summer, the garden peas became a daily treat. I didn’t cook them – I just picked them …
It’s nearly 12 weeks since I took my first steps into the world of home-grown veg. In that time, there has been a lot of glorious sunshine, so I have been kept busy watering. Unfortunately, there was also a storm a couple of weeks ago, and the pea plants and …
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love fresh garden peas, straight from the pod. I get ridiculously excited when they first appear in the shops, and eat them by the bagful. I never cook them – they never get as far as the pot! I can remember my …
Our crop of chillies has suddenly turned red this week! Must be all that lovely autumn sunshine on the kitchen windowsill. Please help yourself to a chilli, and let us know what you made with it. Oct 3, 2019
