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Prep: 5 mins (plus freezing) Difficulty: Easy Serves: 4   Ingredients 200g ripe strawberries, hulled and chopped 1 avocado, stoned, peeled and roughly chopped 2 tsp balsamic vinegar ½ tsp vanilla extract 1-2 tsp maple syrup (optional)   Method Put the strawberries (save ...

Common Crane Grus grus Birding brings elation when you see the unexpected but inevitably it comes with frustrations too when you miss out (or ‘dip’) completely. Last winter a really rare visitor to Britain, a Blue Rock Thrush, spent many weeks entertaining people from far and wide as it swapped ...

Digging   Whatever state your plot or garden is in, at some point you will need to do some digging. Digging will open up compacted soil and aerate it, allowing you to remove weeds and giving you the opportunity to mix some organic matter that will best enrich the soil.   Double ...

The theme this month is “war time recipes”. I was in Italy when WWII was going on, and I remember the meals we had at home when bread was not available and the fresh pasta my mother used to make was made with cake flour (not from durum wheat) - which was always grossly overcooked. However, we also ...

Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening   Digging Deep does for gardeners what Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones has done for millions of writers and artists: it shows how to approach your passion with an eye towards freeing your spirit ...

Glebelands School hosted another Community Science Show called Science Pranks presented by Steve Mould on Thursday 27th April. Steve is a prolific science communicator being on a number of TV shows such as the BBC’s The One Show and Britain’s Brightest. During the evening, Steve took the audience ...