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PICK YOUR OWN – A DAY OUT AND A WIN WIN FOR ALL THE FAMILY
With essential picking tips
On a recent trip to visit a friend in Surrey I took a detour and stopped off at a Pick Your Own Farm to gather up some strawberries for jam making and a few other supplies. The place was called Garsons farm and just outside Esher. It was huge and as with many farms overflowing…
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NATIONAL BREAKFAST WEEK – TIME FOR SOME NEW YEAR FUN
Such a good idea and it is still only January
What a great idea to have a National Breakfast Week and here it is from January to 24th to 30th. I just love the idea of National Breakfast week. It is my favourite meal and then marmalade,my favourite preserve, comes into its own. So this week is a winner. All day breakfast for me. Breakfast comes in…
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES – COOKING WITH PRESERVES WITH THE YOUNG
With Jam and Coconut Slice for all ages
When my daughters were small and would come back from school at about 3.30pm they were generally absolutely famished and often totally ratty. A small sandwich would smooth everything out until their evening meal. By the time they were aged about six or seven, I would put out the sliced bread, spread and filling for them…
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACIVITIES – A KITCHEN GARDEN FOR THE YOUNG
Grow, pick and preserve
CHILDREN’S GARDENS The one childhood memory that my sister and I can always agree upon is that my mother paid us two pence a pound for picking blackcurrants. Old pence you understand. There was a row of inexhaustible bushes at the bottom of the garden. My mother was not generally so generous. Did she find…
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START A KITCHEN GARDEN FROM SCRATCH – FOLLOW IN TOM AND BERYL’s FOOTSTEPS
It is NATIONAL GARDENING WEEK - START SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
This week is National Gardening Week in the UK and there are events taking place all over the country. TOM’s INSPIRATION My memories go back some fifty years ago when Tom Wood, a Yorkshire man by birth (and so proud of it), left the swinging London of the mid-sixties to settle with Beryl in the tiny village…
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THE WORLD’S ORIGINAL DALEMAIN MARMALADE AWARDS
With a special invitation to those living in the North of England
Now to the best competition in the preserves calendar. This week I am delighted to feature the Tenth Year of the Dalemain Marmalade Awards What makes this the fun part of making preserves is that all are invited to submit their homemade marmalade to fit a list of categories. There is also a label competition…
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