It must be spring, I heard a cuckoo yesterday, we have started eating broad beans and the cherry blossom has become tiny cherries (although my photo was taken while the site was down and is still beautiful blossom).
The broad beans are still very tiny, but are fantastic in stir-fries, which I am amazingly managing to make almost entirely from stuff from the garden. This is a first for this time of year – I guess we are getting better at this self sufficiency lark.
We put loads of broad beans in last november, as they are so easy to grow, add nitrogen to the soil and come out of the ground as our summer crops go in. Our new hand flour mill should be fine at turning the dried broad beans into flour, which I am thinking I can sneak into all kinds of dishes!
I am still gutted that we lost all of our blog, but perhaps it is a good thing to start again. We are still waiting for windows and doors for the house renovation, which should be here soon, and I have plenty of lime-washing and tiling to do – then our new start can commence. Life is all about death and rebirth, sometimes you just have to let things go so that something new can come. Something better perhaps.
Governments could do well to accept this and let the old economic system die, directing resources into the new paradigm of local, sustainable, low-energy, post peak oil world, rather trying to maintain the pyramid selling system of capitalism that has simply run out of frontiers and cheap abundant energy. Globalisation is unsustainable, and is coming to an end. The days of cheap food in supermarkets, grown by slaves all over the world, is also coming to an end.
Hopefully we can inspire a few people to realise this, and start on that endless path of learning, that we started 6 years ago, that is smallholding and self sufficiency. For me, at least, the loss of the old blog is an opportunity to rethink and change the content and style of my posts, to try to share as much of our lives and knowledge as I can.
