Join us for a year of exploring and foraging along, across, and around the Weald, Downs, and shoreline of Kent. Thursday, 21 February 2013. Beef and Wild Oyster Stew with Oyster Ale. In Dickensian London the humble oyster was a staple food, being abundant along the thames estuary along the Kent and Essex coasts. A dozen will do just fine for this recipe. A slab of stewing Beef. Shucked oysters and the juice from them. Carrots, onions, mushrooms. Bit of flour to thicken.

A praying, thinking blog with a passion for food, good books and God talk. The World Is My Cloister Tumblr. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. I stopped, the world carried on. Bob Hutton, died on 22nd April. It came as the most terrible shock I have ever experienced. I still cannot think or talk about it without crying. I think about it as the day I stopped and the world kept moving. With gentleness to their story. Saturday, 21 March 2015. I have thoroughly enjoyed Lent this year.

Saturday, 9 May 2015. The sweet potato tuber is in soil, I keep this warm and wet to let the slips grow. I then pick them off and put them in water to grow roots before potting then up, if they already have some roots then I pot them up straight away. Both apple trees are in bloom this year, normally they alternate. Follow my blog with Bloglovin.

I have been out doing energy surveys every day, and despite sweltering and having aching feet from all the walking, I love to see how buildings perform under peak conditions. Traditionally English townhouses were close together, providing a shady walkway.

Thursday, 15 November 2012. Apologies to My Beautiful Life. Who also tagged me but I think I can only answer once. Once tagged you have to tell 11 things about yourself. Answer the 11 questions from the person who tagged you. You are not allowed to back-tag.