Something like thirty years ago, I was on a bus with my grandfather passing The Whitechapel Bell Foundry; he told me a little about the place and promised to take me for a visit when I was older. Three years ago, I bought a ticket for a tour the following year, then forgot to go. …
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Bottled.
The dandelion wine is now bottled and “resting” for a few months prior to tasting.
Dandelion wine – or – That was Easter Monday
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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Books & Bugs
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 …