Well, we are still putting ourselves about a bit, bringing the message of The Food Maze to a wider audience. Does that sound too evangelistic? I must say, it’s a bit of a problem to discuss the contents of the book, or indeed the ethos of Aspen House, without succumbing to the use of phraseology [...]
I am still wary of the fact that February is not quite over, yet the force of spring seems inexorable. Much industry took place in the garden today. Sally tackled the berberis, but I think the berberis won. I tackled the lawn, giving it a good rake over to extract moss and dead grass. The [...]
What’s all this stuff about snow? I’ve just looked at the last diary entry and it’s all about being snowed in on Berry Hill. That seems an age away now. With the weather today presaging rebirth and the new life of spring, winter is a memory. Dangerous talk, I know, but such feelings run at [...]
Going down to get the milk today was such a different experience from last Friday. We were on our way back from Pembrokeshire last Friday, so it made perfect sense to do a quick diversion into the Forest by taking the Coleford road out of Monmouth. As we climbed the hill, we entered a brilliant [...]
My brother’s birthday. Not a lot of people know that. It was the same time last year. Odd, that. Anyway, you don’t want to hear about his birthday. Even he doesn’t want to hear about his birthday (I have that on good authority). Like me, he has given up the idea of birthdays. So, moving [...]
We had heard the weather forecast (and promises of deep snow) on the Monday night, before we crashed out halfway through the evening, so we were looking forward to racing each other on tin trays down the snowy hill into Saundersfoot. It was indeed all white the next morning but, on closer inspection, didn’t look [...]
Well, what a week! It seems strange that we were sunning ourselves down on the Pembrokeshire coast whilst the rest of the country was coming to a standstill in what has suddenly become known as a ‘snow event’. What exactly is a ‘snow event’, and why is it we have had no snow events before? [...]