Making dandelion wine is a messy business; First you have to collect ~400 grams of flowers, then you have to separate out the petals: Then boil them all up with sugar, raisins and some orange peel: And then hope it ferments into something nice. Fingers crossed, that in six months to a year, we’ll have …
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How do you get a five year old interested in collecting insects? Easy, you give them a copy of this book sometime in the 1980s. My copy came from a sale at a school library. There isn’t really much in it about insects, just these two pages, but it was enough to start to get …
I dug out an old school book, from way back when I was 8-ish. Here’s a look at the random stuff I wrote about back then. I was an electronics geek even back then… And a consummate storyteller. I hadn’t quite grasped the finer points of evolution though. And while I now love spiders, I …
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Tea! The most important drink of the day. Even on top of the highest mountain in England.
