I try not to get too excited about the weather. It is what it is and I would rather worry about things I can do something about. However it will be apparent...
Pea soup Ingredients 10 ml olive oil garlic clove crushed 75 gms onion chopped 125 gms frozen or fresh shelled peas 150 ml chicken or vegetable stock salt and pepper to taste...
Zuppa alla Margherita Serves 6 You will need to make three soups, one red, one white and one green. My choice was: Tomato, Parsnip and Pea. Tomato Soup Ingredients 25 gms butter...
The Roseland winter has, like much of the rest of Cornwall, been characterized by relentless days of grey skies, wind and rain. Nice weather for the female Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) still...
As I reported last month, the weather has not, in the main, been conducive to bees flying. However, we have had one or two drier days when the bees have been out...
The Love Child by Amanda Brookfield (Published in paperback by Penguin, on 17 January 2013) As regular readers of my column will know, I’m not a fan of women’s contemporary fiction, so...
The Alternate-Day Diet by James B Johnson and Donald R Laub Sr (Published in paperback by Michael Joseph/Penguin on 3 January 2013) A timely book for many of us, subtitled “Diet only...
Common Sense Must Prevail There was a long discussion at a Meeting earlier in the year when someone raised the point that we did not keep any life ring or throwing line...