Monthly Archives: May 2012

*By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes…* – or The Tale of How OH’s Bike was Stolen and Returned all within 60 minutes

Sometimes life here is not as magical as I would like to think, here in the Lodge, but there again…  After a few wonderful days away, this time down to Londinium, to see the rather wonderful Natural History Museum  – … Continue reading

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Home Made Wild Garlic & Parsley Pesto – Yum Yum!!

Over the weekend the sun came out  here again, and so I made a dash up to the woods  to gather some Wild Garlic again.  This wonderful spring green is near the end of the Season, so I am looking … Continue reading

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‘For I must into the vale of Avylyon to hele me of my grevous wounde…’*

It’s a been a fantastic and a very busy Month so far … May has whosssed in faster than …well  lets say fast! Beltaine has been and passed… sadly no dancing around the May Pole here, the weather has been … Continue reading

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Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath … I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.’ Horatio Nelson

Well I am back from a most wonderful weekend away in Norfolk, And in particular Burnham Overy Staithe, which is on the North Coast. Burnham Overy Staithe, is a hamlet which sits beside a creek-side harbour.  It is also very … Continue reading

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