16 October 2018
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An advantage of now working down in the centre of Oxford is that a wealth of wonderful cultural repositories and shopping emporiums are now within a lunchtime stroll. Today’s outing was to Cardews, a tea and coffee shop in the … Continue reading
10 May 2016
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Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria) is not a widely loved garden plant. The RHS site linked to in the previous sentence describes it as a “fast-growing, invasive, perennial weed”, hardly glowing terms of endearment. Like other plants of that description, it … Continue reading
18 July 2015
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Just a week on and the Chamerion angustifolium (Rosebay Willowherb) leaves I harvested last weekend and left to dry on the windowsill have lost their pea pod flavour and are much tea-ish, for want of a better word. The plants … Continue reading
12 July 2015
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I’m thinking of a magic word. Not abracadabra or even please but… edible! Edible is a magic word because it can transform an ornamental plant into one that is also useful or a “weed” into one that ticks both boxes. … Continue reading
12 April 2014
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What are my favourite beers like? They tend to have a full, almost chewy body with an underlying but not overpower sweetness, wreathed in what could be described as floral notes and followed up by a gentle, palette freshening hoppy … Continue reading
9 March 2012
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My favourite tea shop is so cosily antique that I cannot even find a website directly for it. The nearest I could get to the Wallingford Tea and Coffee Company was an entry in the TouchLocal directory. They do very … Continue reading
17 May 2011
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Jane came up with an interesting twist on mint tea this morning by dropping in a sprig of parsley. The effect is subtle but adds a pleasing extra harmony to the ensemble. We have a glut of harvested parsley at … Continue reading