10 October 2024
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I’ve been using my dehydrator a fair amount in recent weeks. It is the one I picked up in the autumn of 2021 and I’d say that it earns the cupboard space it takes up for portions of the year. … Continue reading
17 July 2021
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Hotter today than yesterday and, if the forecast is true, hotter tomorrow than today! Sweltering. When I went shopping this evening, I retrieved a bottle of water from the boot of car that we’d put in yesterday for our Harlow … Continue reading
17 January 2020
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I’m typing this with chilly fingers, after walking back from church this afternoon. In part, that is because the skies have cleared, revealing a beautiful sky after earlier overcast and wet conditions. Another way of saying that is that the … Continue reading
24 February 2019
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On the way back from Devon today, we stopped for lunch at a National Trust site called Sutton Lane Meadows. This is billed as a “delightful wildflower meadow” but, even in the above average temperatures we are enjoying this February, … Continue reading
10 January 2019
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I don’t know what the temperature was when I cycled to work this morning but it is the first time recently that I’ve found the tips of my fingers getting unpleasantly cold even with my thicker gloves on. According to … Continue reading
16 January 2018
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It feels a bit nippy in Oxford at the moment, with temperatures forecast to drop lower later this week and possibly reaching 0°C or below at night by the weekend. However, I spare a thought for the citizens of Oymyakon … Continue reading
27 April 2016
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For sometime now my MacBook has been running noisy and hot. It is annoying and I think it is probably also the reason I’ve had some unplanned shutdowns recently. Unfortunately OS X doesn’t provide much in the way of built … Continue reading
1 July 2015
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Being British, I suspect I am obliged to post about the weather once in a while. It has certainly been noteworthy today – another record broken with the hottest day on record in the UK since records began in the … Continue reading
30 June 2015
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We made our first jam of the year last night from our first redcurrant harvest of the year. Jane had previously juiced the redcurrants and we cooked the extracted juice with sugar (so, technically, a jelly rather than a jam). … Continue reading
31 March 2015
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I love a thick, crunchy crust on my bread. Turn up the heat high, give it a good cook and you get that satisfying crack as you bite into it. However, sometimes that isn’t ideal, such as when I bake … Continue reading