I thought I would bake some mini spiced apple cakes to hand out at woolfest

The only problem is people keep quality testing them, so who knows how many I’ll have left by woolfest! Haven’t they heard of non destructive testing???

As its christmas I’ve made a couple of changes to my spiced apple cake. Replacing the sultanas with cranberries, and the calvados with port. So far I’ve baked 4 cakes, I’m part way through a mushroom wellington for tomorrow, and still have the minced pies to go!

Well, during the last month I constructed in my mind all sorts of exciting, witty & inspired posts which didn’t happen because of the broken blog.  I have now forgotten them all.  So here’s a summary of some of August’s happenings…

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Things are growing well in the tunnel this year


Lettuce coming out of our ears!