| Untagged | 27 May 2007 1:35 PM |
| Mistle Thrush by British Red | Comment (0) |
A damp garden does have compensations...
A pait of mistle thrushes have been visiting all morning!
Red
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Description: Red Rambles..... Well I guess the word "Rambles" covers a multitude of purposes - all of which are suitable to cover my stuff. This blog will cover both the old "Images from Hampshire" thread and sundry other musings Come in - pull up a log and pass your mug for mead Red |
| Untagged | 25 May 2007 9:57 PM |
| May 25th - Pignuts and pimpernels by British Red | Comment (0) |
Well I've been messing around in the woods today - gathered up some branches etc. to try a few techniques out for building a better pot hanger
I spotted absolute clouds of scarlet pimpernels around on the walk (shown above)
I got a handful of pignuts whilst I was there
| Untagged | 22 May 2007 3:18 PM |
| May 22- bark, moths and damsels! by British Red | Comment (1) |
Had a wander through the woods today - thoroughly nice. They are felling up there right now so I headed in a differnt direction and came across a couple of fallen birch trees.
Too good an opportunity to miss so I cut some sections to make a dipper. Warm work mind you (as the photo above shows)
Nice day and saw some
| Untagged | 20 May 2007 5:33 PM |
| A day in the garden by British Red | Comment (0) |
Had a day in the garden today. Why? Well, I'll be off all next week and prefer the woods to myself. So, today was one for potting on peppers, planting out beans, transplanting seed grown shallots etc.
Also the chance to appreciate the flowers. I'm a lazy gardener and so use self seeders and perennials most of the time. I show my age in my
| Red, Herbs, Garden | 20 May 2007 4:48 AM |
| Today I have mostly been ...drying herbs by British Red | Comment (3) |
Not really "bushcrafty" - although it will be when I build a solar dehydrator shortly. Anyways.....
There's two ways to dry - fast and slow. Fast implies a dehydrator, slow means air drying. I've shown both here. For a dehydrator I've shown my electrically powered model. If you would like to see a solar model, I'll do a thread on that too - when I've built it!
Well, to show how to dry herbs, lets see whats fresh
I grow loads of Rosemary. Its great
| Untagged | 18 May 2007 7:28 AM |
| A time for every purpose by British Red | Comment (7) |
Well, as some of you know I've decided to take a six month sabbatical from work to "rest up" after some illness for both me and BB.
Highly fortuitous that the blog is available today - my last day at work! I hope you will look in and comment occasionally as I post a few more pictures and discuss whatever is on my mind
Red