Christmas cards

I have been very organised this year, got my Christmas cards done. I did the drawings then, got them printed than hand painted them. It took me ages.....the flat corridor was the production line after I hand painted them to leave them there to dry. God knows what Heidi thought of the mess!

Sage and Ginger beer!

Weddding plans going as planned. Heidi has been working on the cards, I hope to get some photos of it for my next blog post. We hope to send the invites out with the Christmas cards in order to save on postage!

I've just bottled my sage and ginger beer today, I gave Heidi a taste, she said it tasted like cough medicine..."Hump!"...well, I liked it anyway. I suppose this means she will not be eating her dress!. I said that once it matures (3-4 weeks time), we'll get some friends to have a taste and see what they think. Above is a picture of what it looks like.

Planting a new hedge - Sun 30th Nov

We spend the day planting a new hedge, we had got several small blackthorn, hawthorn, a dog rose, holly and a crab apple. As you can see from the picture, we prepared the outside of the allotment, we hope to get rid of the corregated iron once the trees are established. I left Heidi doing the hardwork (digging) while I took pictures for the blog :-)

Tree walk - Sat Nov 22nd

Oh dear I've not been keeping up with my blog. Here's a quick catch up, Nov 22nd Sat we went for a Ranger walk to learn to identify trees. Here's two, see if you can identify them (the answer is at the end, you can click on the pictures for more detail).
It was a lovely walk and we learned quite a lot about trees, especially the relationships with paticular species of trees with birds. For example, Waxwing eat the fermented berries of the Rowan trees asn as you can guess, they sometimes gets tipsy.
Ok, the answer for the trees, the first one is birch as you can see from the white bark, and the second is Ash, you might be able to make out the keys if you have super eyesight!

Next Brew - Sage & Ginger!

"What?!" I hear you say, "a sage and ginger beer!". Yes, it's going to be a herbal beer this time. We'll see how it turns out, hopefully it will be delicious (Heidi says if the beer turns out to be drinkable she will eat her own wedding dress!).

It's bubbling away ferociously in the kitchen, I just hope it does not explode! I've wrapped it with blanket just incase it does.

Wedding plans so far. Heidi manage to do a rough sketch of the wedding invites and had her friend Gabriella do some more creative work on it. Hopefully we can get the design sorted and printed by the end of this week (fingers crossed).

We have been working on the allotment today, planted the bulbs, daffodils and tulips, we hope they will flower and also be ready for our wedding day. There is a chance they might flower early or later dependant on the weather.

Halloween

Heidi and I celebrated Halloween/Samhain, we bobbed for apples in a bucket. Since I had juicy pear, I had a great idea 'bobbing for pears'. Unfortunately the pear sunk into the bottom of the bucket and I wasn't going to bob for it, as you can see from the pictures!



Here are some pictures of our success.

Bob Brewing

Well...the first batch of summer ale is done, I've sampled a few and it is delicious. I've managed to download some pictures of me messing up the kitchen and here it is! :-)