The start of a new year seemed like a good moment to overhaul and refresh this website, so renovations are currently underway. Or should that be reconstruction? Whatever, the winds of change are blowing through this site and the new and improved version is coming soon. Watch this space, as they say!
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Book review of Michael Pembroke's Silk Silver Opium: the trade with China that shaped history.
Harvesting and processing produce from the vegetable garden is always a busy time of the year, but reassuring to have a well-stocked freezer to rely on through the colder weather. This year there will be some wild blackberries too, cooked up with apples given by neighbours and friends.
Unexpected life challenges can upend the best laid plans and disrupt ordered routines. This was our experience recently. Not so much an adventure, but an unlooked-for and rather nasty gauntlet that needs to be navigated without a compass, or any clear idea of how to proceed.