An eventful autumn at Oaklands

Onions, jam and a very naughty parrot

Moving into the colder months, the garden still has a lot to give.

A desert island discs of cookbooks for a house to flat move,

It's been a while since I posted and it seems to be the time of year for foodie posts. The end of June saw a quick return from garden...

I have not posted for a while but life has been good during April and May so I have a few posts to catch up on. Waking up with nothing...

May comes around, and new arrivals are popping up everywhere.

Early April finds me home at Oaklands after 3 months in Dubai - summoned for a meeting at the office in London. I was due to come home...

I am back in the sandpit of Dubai for the run up to Christmas but have a few developments back at Oaklands that I can catalogue in the...

I was called back to the UK by an illness in the family a couple of weeks ago but once my duties as a carer were done I was able to grab...

I flew home from Dubai a couple of weeks ago to break up what would otherwise have been another 3 month period of family separation. As...

It has been good over the last 3 weeks to finally get stuck into planting and "working" in the Potager. I have not written much at all....

I left Dubai on 12 June and ran the gauntlet of heat sensors, forms and four hour check-ins to make it back to Herefordshire in time for...

There is a small rogue piece of hoggin that that still needs completing in this picture from the Woodland Way into the main raised bed...

We have been talking about the "Avenue" and whether it should be flanked with a row of trained Apple trees or even just some very low...

I have been putting off starting to set down any kind of plan for quite a few weeks but from a practical point of view it would be better...

I will leave Jane to post a much longer piece on the progress of the garden works. Needless to say in the two weeks Jane has been in...

Pheasants are not indigenous to the United Kingdom and were introduced purely for the purpose of sport in the last few hundred years....

I am a very happy man in Dubai this morning. My usual routine at the weekend includes a good hour or two looking at websites and a degree...

Actually a mixture of habanero and red peppers in a pickling brine. The idea is to pickle first and then to whizz into a sauce. Despite...