I've been reading lots of shivery cold blog posts lately. There are snow drifts in them! We don't ever see snow in our garden (although there is snow just 100 meters higher than us in the dead of winter) and I sometimes wish we were somewhere with a "real winter." But then the week in …
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Gardener of the minute
The weather has improved, so I've been spending more time in the garden. Every time I am there, I am caught somewhere between panic at how much work there is to be done and excitement that the new growing season is beginning. Everything seems to be waking up. I had planted a lot of brassicas …
In My Kitchen February 2013
Celia at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial hosts the In My Kitchen series, and it's a lot of fun to read, so head over there and check it out! This month I have been blogging in slow motion because I haven't got the Internet at my new apartment, strictly speaking. So this month's IMK has …
When in doubt, cheat.
On Sunday night, it was the eve of the lunar new year, so I got busy and made us a new year meal. While I was in China, I learned to eat boiled dumplings for new year (and at any other opportunity that I could find). There was a great restaurant that Ali and I …
Still here…
I haven't been writing much lately, and I couldn't put my finger on why. Then after a recent, very quick trip to the garden I noticed that I felt different. I felt lighter, more relaxed, as though something had come untangled inside me. I think I have not been writing as much lately because I …
Garden Correspondent 