Self-sufficient in Suburbia

  The second batch of chicks this year hatched over the weekend. The hatch rate was lower than the first batch a few weeks ago. Then we had ...

  Spanish omelette or Tortilla Española - yet another attempt to use up some of our egg mountain. We also added bacon to the basic ingredien...

  The egg mountain continues but we found a useful recipe to turn egg yolks into ice cream. It went rather well with apple pie.

  Despite the lack of rain, we have a bumper rhubarb crop. Time for a rhubarb pie.

  We still have a big egg mountain so here's another egg based meal - egg and bacon flan with roast potatoes. Alas, though our egg mount...

  We had no rain from 22nd March to 22nd May. Admittedly there were 5 moments of slight drizzle during those 2 months but that didn't ev...

  The byproduct of shaving the sheep earlier in May was a big pile of wool. We have no use for it. We typically give some of it away to allo...