The old ways

Living Life the Old Fashioned Way | Backdoor Survival

Summer has come to an end once again & the kitchen garden is giving up it's wonderful delights. It is delightful to see how well the marrows, beetroot, tomatoes & potatoes have done. The days are becoming shorter & have a faded deep glow to them. Hay & wheat is all harvested now & the fields all now have their earth all turned & ready to lay bare all Winter. There has been an abundance of hedgerow fruits this year & the robins are back in the garden watching you work. Holly berries are…

June is the noisiest month of the year in the garden, from the first light birdsong fills the air giving a true sense of the garden being alive. Thrushes & young Blackbirds are abundant especially after a heavy shower of rain, they scratch about beneath bushes & the large Magnolia tree looking to see what may be found there. Sweet little Sparrows & young Starlings are everywhere too, along with the young rabbits they give George many hours of amusement at the windows. The sun barely seems to…

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Yesterday we had a lovely day out at The Black Country Museum which is just over 2 1/2 hours away from us. This is a living museum where you find many cottages, small houses & a town all set in a time long ago. Travelling through Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire farmers were busy in the fields harvesting. ~ I made Rock Cakes to take on our picnic tea. ~ 8 oz self raising flour 1 tsp nutmeg 4 oz margarine & 4oz sugar 4 oz sultanas & 3 oz chopped dried apricots 2 eggs beaten ~ Rub the margarine…

The weather has turned now & Summer is a distant memory. We have had a wet week here in Lincolnshire & have spent some beautiful days inside baking & doing crafts. ~ I have a love of old pieces of furniture. This is the hand carved top of a wall cupboard in our parlour dated 1640. I would love to know the journey these pieces have taken. ~ Dried Honesty from the garden. ~ This is the only original window we have left in the cottage with some of the old hand blown glass in it. It is hard to…

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