Just recently, we were introduced to an interesting product by someone who was staying with us. This product, stevia, is a natural alternative to sugar, but hundreds of times sweeter, which puts it in direct competition with the industrialised chemical sweeteners on the market. That’s brilliant news, we hear you cry. Well, yes, it is. [...]
Okay, I realise that I might be on dodgy ground if I mention the black pheasant again, and I can sense that some of you are already losing the will to live, but the fact is that we saw him again. The day before yesterday. Up at the Pengethley Farm Shop. Unfortunately, he was, quite [...]
Well, we did enjoy that! The Indian banquet on Saturday night, that is. This one was by way of a ‘thank-you’ for all those masters of their art who have helped so much with Aspen House over the last twelve months; the team at Orphans Press who designed the website, their top rate photographer and, [...]
Well – what a bonus! The black pheasant appeared again today. On a whim, I just popped into the fist floor lounge to cast my eye over the garden – and there it was, lurking behind the tiny yew hedge that was planted last summer. The yew is just about pheasant height, so I didn’t [...]
Our very own lawnmower man, affectionately known as Rob the Grass, called in to see us today. It was no more than a casual drop-in, but we wondered, from a couple of remarks he made, whether he was half expecting to see our grass two feet high, the weather being unseasonably mild. In fact, the [...]
The weather has warmed up, and the second of only two snow falls we have seen this winter came and went on the evening of 29th December. Which is a pity really. Apart from any other reason, I was hoping that we’d get a covering of snow followed by a visit from the black pheasant, [...]