More Barn Progress

  Things are moving now, and hopefully we will be soon. We think we have satisfied all the conditions to reapply for further planning permission, so hopefully we will get confirmation soon, then we will be moving in! It's a slightly terrifying thought, and will be...

Barn progress and general updates

  I've been absent, so a quick update - the barn is underway, although we aren't living in it yet. We are trying to meet the council's requirements so we can apply for changes to the original planning permission, namely to add an extension so there is actually enough...

Naked Cucumbers

If you weren’t already aware it’s #PlasticFreeJuly This is great. Finally it’s a thing and some of the big players are starting to take note that something must be done about plastics at source rather than just expecting us customers to recycle the...

Rosemary Bouillabaisse

Part of our series on growing and cooking with herbs One of the big success stories in our herb growing endeavours started as a small sickly looking rosemary plant we’d been given in a pot that never seemed to get any bigger. We gave it a last chance and...

Growing and Cooking With Herbs

Growing and Cooking With Herbs Who doesn’t like a few fresh herbs in their cooking? Who doesn’t like a garden, yard or window box that smells great and needs very little maintenance? This is the first of the series about growing your own herbs and cooking with them....

Live Well,

Beat Austerity,

Save the Planet

This blog is about the experiences of myself and my husband on how we faced a shrinking household budget and a growing family and won.

We have three daughters; two preschoolers by me and a grown stepdaughter from my husband’s first marriage. With the responsibility of raising a new generation has come an increasing urgency to act to preserve the planet we inhabit so that they will have something to pass on to their own children. With this has come a desire to question the social moires and expectations of how we live and what we eat, as well as a willingness to experiment and try alternatives.

Fortunately, living a greener lifestyle and saving money are not as mutually incompatible as many people think.

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