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Legend has it fennel bestowed immortality in the Greek island of Prometheus. If you needed a reason to learn to love its aniseed flavour, that’s a good one right there. Romans thought it helped with maintaining a healthy weight. Add another tick! File this away for next Halloween, but fennel was hung over doorways and its [...]
For natural carpet deodorising with essential oils, mix around 30 drops of a blend of authentic lavender and geranium essential oils into a glass, air-tight jar of 2 cups bicarb of soda (baking soda). Shake well. Sprinkle over carpets before vacuuming. Easy, isn't it ! No synthetic fragrances to mess up your body's equilibrium. No toxic [...]
Today’s essential oil spotlight lands on clove. If you ever saw the movie Marathon Man, the mention of clove will dig up the dentistry scene from your memory banks. Argh! Let's say it was a long time before I made it to the dentist again after watching that! But don’t worry, clove was the good guy. [...]
Ever feel like you’re a square peg in a round hole? If my outdoor dining setting was a sentient being, it would be nodding, given it’s currrently inside getting acquainted with my sofa and armchairs. (Actually, they are armless armchairs. I'm guessing they have a technically proper name, but I’m more versed in plant names than [...]
Someone once told me cricket is the sound of summer holidays. I don’t watch much cricket, but I got what they meant. Even if you were last pick for sporting teams at school, you’re probably happy enough to have a go when the bat, ball and makeshift stumps are arranged for a game of backyard cricket. [...]
Judging by the search engine results when I Googled up camping recipes, people love comfort food when they are out under the stars ! Is it the combination of clean fresh air and exercise that drives an insatiable hunger for sausage coils and pan-fried spuds chased with buttered rum bananas with chocolate and marshmallow? Or is [...]
Christmas is a special time for giving homemade gifts. This spiritual occasion is always at risk of being over-commercialised in spite of our best intentions. With 24 hour Christmas trading hours on offer, have you ever found yourself hitting the shops in your daggiest clothes and joggers at the eleventh hour, beating down feelings of gift-giving [...]
When you think of cedarwood, do you think of those little balls you can hang in your wardrobe to ward off things that chew their way through your prime woollens and silks and somehow manage to remain hidden all the while? I swear they have a cloak of invisibility, the rotten varmints. For sure, cedarwood balls [...]
