BradScott's Blog – June 2008 Archive (5)

I don't mean channa dal and a chicken korma, I mean the food of native Americans. In yesterday's blog post I noted that there is a Californian Black Oak on the Hartfield Road, and that my tree book suggested the acorns were a North American staple. Ever interested in the prospect of unusual wild food, I've been looking to see what you can do with them.



Apparently not introduced to… Continue

Somewhat tired tonight when I got back from work, and I'm afraid going to another meeting (ie tonight's Transition group) was not for me. My daughter was up for a walk, so we had a very short amble up to Tablehurst, which re-energised me in lots of ways.



I've been exploring the trees in the village for a while now, and have also created a map showing and linking to all the tree preservation orders for the parish. It is available… Continue

Happily, the allotment is at last beginning to feel like we are managing it. Yesterday we uncovered one of the other beds, extracted a few weeds (and a vile, stinking blighted potato), and planted out about 50 or so brassicas: purple sprouting broccoli, white sprouting broccoli, regular broccoli (var. Spike), and an unidentified group. We've left it covered in fleece and netting; the first year we had the allotment I didn't net them (since I never had where we used to live), and they all got… Continue

While walking around the parish I started to wonder how to find a listing of all the listed buildings, partly to find corners of Forest Row that I don't know, and also to start to get a better idea of local building traditions. Moving beyond that, I can imagine using that information as the start of a history project for the parish, as we start to repopulate the old houses from various historical sources, starting off with the Victorian censuses.



Anyway, English Heritage run the… Continue

That's a Van der Graaf reference, in case you didn't notice. We always find loads of lizards on the allotment, and here is a particularly nice one:

We spent about three hours down there today en famille after I spent an hour up at Emerson, and it is looking… Continue