River Cottage

This has to be in the top 5 foragers homebrew recipes. Simple to make and a delight to drink! Below is our first batch from our new home (we have an elder at the bottom of the garden). Not a bad Read More ›

We planted 2 gooseberry bushes last year and they didn't do a thing, so we were delighted when this year they produced a rather handsome crop of gooseberries. The trick with gooseberries is that they Read More ›

We have been renovating on and off over the last 18 months now and I guess it was inevitable that at some point one of us would pick up an injury. What a shame it had to be the face! This happened Read More ›

It may appear that we have been slacking over the Christmas period with the lack of updates on the site, however that couldn't be further from the truth! We have begun the renovation of the dining Read More ›

What's better than spending a bitterly cold Sunday evening by ther warm cosy fire? Well cooking by it at the same time of course! The great thing about this way of cooking salmon (which I copied Read More ›

Sometimes it’s nice to get a job finished… and sometimes time just runs out on you! With autumn fully established and some serious frosts about we needed to get a log store built and Read More ›

That’s right we have now been living here a year, and it’s time to re-cap and take stock of what has been completed and what has been left undone! Inside the house we have successfully Read More ›

When trying to hide from the fact that we had too many pears falling off our tree every day it was brought to my attention that i should be preserving them. So that's exactly what I did! This really Read More ›