Imerfectly Natural
The website of Janey Lee Grace, author and broadcaster.
Alternative living, eco lifestyle, healthy natural alternatives
August is the month for dusting off the jam pan. So far the apples have started landing regularly on the lawn. Rather than waste these early fruits they have been transformed into ‘Spiced Apple Jelly’ with just a hint of the old favourite – Chilli! Without a greenhouse at the moment the chillies are slow and few, but the next project, since there are apples a plenty on the tree, is an apple press, it seems the best way to construct one is with a bottle jack and some stout timber, both of which are lying around in the shed! Whether cider is attempted or not rather depends on the juice – it might get drunk too quickly!
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The website of Janey Lee Grace, author and broadcaster.
Alternative living, eco lifestyle, healthy natural alternatives
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As the single flake fell, the newscasters and weather reporters gasped and reached for their cameras to record the moment the first ever flake of snow fell on Britain – Because it never snows here does it? Well only every year. Once a year, pretty much give or take we get one good snow fall. You would think that everyone would be used to the snow by now. That the rail companies would have engineered tracks not to be made unusable with the ‘wrong type of snow’. But no, we don’t for a day or two the country is gripped by snow fever. The letter bombings of the past week, the skirmishes on the Israeli – lebanese border all forgotten, because there is snow. I take my hat off to Jeremy Vine of Radio 2 today. Instead of going on about how bad the snow has affected each person in the country with a blow by blow account of shovels and blankets, his program was largely about the joy of a day in the snow. It began by his own recording of his jog to work – 5 miles through the snow. Noting the beauty and differences a blanket of [...]
By the wonders of google alert I found my name mentioned here, what a lovely blog, have we ever met ? You’re rigth my books are for guys too as is my freindly forum. We need a reluctant ordained, fancy doing a feature for the site, I’d like to up the spirituality side.
By the way Imperfectly Natural Woman the pocketbook is out in March, get that for the other half as a return gift !
Janey