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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Greenhouse

October 31, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

The greenhouses (and the polytunnel) are an overgrown mess. But a month ago (maybe even at the end of September) I cleared out one of them. I then decided to […]

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gardening

Apple Juice and Wild Swimming

October 29, 2017by Claire 1 Comment

I don’t know where October has gone to. Things have been busy this week – book deadline looms as usual, but on a more positive front the weather has been […]

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Dogs, gardening, wild swimming

Massacre

October 21, 2017by Claire 31 Comments

On Thursday night a fox came and left 31 dead chickens in our main coop. Most of my rare-breed Ixworth chickens that I have been breeding for the last couple […]

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Animals, Food Truck

Food Truck, Coincidences and Wild Swimming

October 18, 2017by Claire 8 Comments

I was away last week in Tallinn for work. It was a very interesting workshop with some lovely, clever people. Bizarrely, I unexpectedly bumped into my sister on the flight […]

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Food Truck, My other life, wild swimming

Maqluba

October 10, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

I’ve wanted to make this wonderful dish from Ottolenghi and Tamimi Jerusalem for some time, but I had to wait for the fortuitous confluence of cauliflower and aubergine in the kitchen […]

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gardening, recipes

Confessions

October 9, 2017by Claire 11 Comments

I don’t brush my hair every day – there I have said it. I brush it when I am going to work and often on other days, but sometimes over […]

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gardening, recipes

Little Fears

October 7, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

I don’t have little fears. I have crushing, great, overwhelming ones. The book deadline looms so high that I am working on a Saturday, after having worked all week (so […]

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