Saturday, September 25, 2021

Gardeners' Holidays 2021: Harvest Home (Halfway?)

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The Gardeners' Holiday associated with the fall equinox is normally a little-bit-of-everything celebration . In late September, the toma...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Freecycle track record

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My plans to celebrate the Jewish new year by getting rid of a bunch of stuff on Freecycle have not been altogether successful. Of the six i...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

Recipe of the Month: Herbed Grilled Veggies and White Beans

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Now that Brian and I have almost completely given up meat, grilling season isn't quite the same for us. We can't just throw a few ho...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Starting the year off light

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Tomorrow night is the start of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish year. Most years, I mark this occasion by going to services with m...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Recipe of the Month: Summer Fruit Smoothie

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First of all, apologies for not managing to get a blog entry up last weekend. I was planning to write one on Sunday, but on Sunday morning w...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

One last chance for a price on carbon

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This week we got some very bad news about climate change. The latest report from the IPCC tells us that, no matter what we do, the earth is...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

My first made-from-scratch garment

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My sewing skills are fairly rudimentary. I can replace a button, mend a torn seam, or darn a hole, but I've never considered myself up t...