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Celebrating gaining one pound

When you lose a lot of weight some folks say ”well done” but others are nervous. ls it is a sign that you are sick.  I started the year at c17 stone, I ended August at 13 stone 4 pounds and it was deliberate. No booze, no biscuits: in fact my diet had become almost entirely rabbit food and fish. In an attempt to tackle cholesterol I was taking my coffee black and cheese, hitherto a great love, was out.

Saturday 14 September 2024
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Celebrating gaining one pound

When you lose a lot of weight some folks say ”well done” but others are nervous. ls it is a sign that you are sick.  I started the year at c17 stone, I ended August at 13 stone 4 pounds and it was deliberate. No booze, no biscuits: in fact my diet had become almost entirely rabbit food and fish. In an attempt to tackle cholesterol I was taking my coffee black and cheese, hitherto a great love, was out.

Saturday 14 September 2024

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel: just in case those North Dakota blizzards sweep up the Dee

The preparations for an 1880/81 North Dakota style “long cold winter” continue. My wood shed may be bulging but what happens if President Putin cuts off the UK’s gas supply just as a blizzard sweeps up the River Dee making a journey across the farm yard to my wood stack both hazardous and chilling?

Saturday 14 September 2024

Photo article: A wonderful hamper arrives and the happiest man at the Welsh Hovel

A very kind attendee at Sharestock sent me a thank you present of a hamper packed with wonderful Scottish food and a bottle of French wine for the Mrs. As Joshua helped unpack it yesterday his face lit up, “you can’t have that, diabetes,you can’t have that, more for me”..So the whole family is delighted. But the most delighted is pictured below.

Saturday 14 September 2024

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel: a night of cooking as the Mrs hits the boozer

The sister of the Mrs was around so as soon as the kids were in bed she was off to the Hare. Left home alone, I had a chance to catch up in the Kitchen. Joshua’s birthday looms and like that of his mother, it will be a four day affair with events each day to celebrate. So there is cooking for that to do plus the storing of other produce for the Autumn.

Friday 13 September 2024

Photo article from the Welsh hovel: braving the rain to harvest

My hero, Charles Ingalls, would have been proud of me as I defied almost non stop rain to start harvesting. I also brought in stacks of wood for the stove in the living room as it really is getting cold and the gas heating seems to be on the blink, yet again.

Thursday 12 September 2024

My inner Charles Ingalls is needed at the Welsh Hovel as Aunt Lucy plays the Indian from the Long Winter (who didn’t exist)

Set in the winter of 1880 to 1881, The Long Winter is a fairly grim book in the Little House on the Prairie series. It really did seem at one point as if the folks huddled in the North Dakotan town of De Smet might not make it. But they did, and sixty years later, Laura Ingalls wrote down what she remembered of a time when she was just fourteen. But the Indian…

Wednesday 11 September 2024

Tom Winnifrith podcast: as Ukraine collapses Kamala Harris is in the last chance saloon in the debate tomorrow

A day ahead of the Harris vs Donald Trump debate I look at the state of the US elections and the increasingly desperate war in Ukraine where Russia is clearly winning, another potential headache for the Biden Harris team

Monday 9 September 2024

After the coolest summer in nine years the Met Office, BBC and other cultists look very silly: time to admit the global warming hoax is over?

We were all told it was the warmest spring on record. I exhausted my supplies of wood, keeping my family warm by the stove into April. Readers across the UK tell a similar tale. As George Orwell put it in 1984 “ The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In this case the “party” is the Met Office and the media and political class GroupThink with, natch, the BBC at the forefront. So after that “warmest spring” what was forecast to happen next?

Wednesday 4 September 2024

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel: First of six Bara Brith cakes off the production line

rite another batch of dried fruit is soaking in black tea to make the next two cakes. But after a 24hor soak, yesterday’s batch was added to flour, brown sugar, a bit of mixed spice and an egg, mixed thoroughly and baked in the Aga. Hey presto, the fist two cakes for tea at Sharestock on Saturday are now ready and being stored, as they should be, to mature a little.

Wednesday 4 September 2024

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel: first day of school beckons meaning I tie a tie for the first time in more than a decade

Joshua starts at the school that made Matt Hancock the man he is today on Thursday. Jaya starts part time at the village primary today. And thus last night both dressed up in their new uniforms as you can see below.

Wednesday 4 September 2024

Tesco and the pork sausages: Jew hatred in Wrexham 2024

I make a point of buying a pot of Sabre houmous evert time I visit Tesco as it is the only product I can guarantee is Israeli and I want to show my support. A couple of times I have removed pro Palestinian stickers from the shelf, handed them to staff and complained.  This time it was rather more nasty.

Tuesday 3 September 2024

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel: Sixty per cent of last night's production line

What you do not see is a tray of blackberries flash frozen and packed away in the freezer for making winter summer puddings and another litre of ice cream (blackberry) now on its way to the same place. However…

Tuesday 3 September 2024

The BBC disgraces itself over Arlington and Donald Trump

ast week Donald Trump accompanied by Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq veteran, and others attended a ceremony at the National Cemetery at Arlington Virginia commemorating 13 US servicemen and women killed in the botched evacuation of Kabul. Kamala Harris accused Trump of using the ceremony as a political weapon and the BBC and the rest of the liberal media piled in behind Harris. If you are not on twitter you might think that this is another Trump own goal. Au contraire.

Sunday 1 September 2024

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel: take that R from Cornwall, a real man's woodshed is done for the winter

In the middle section of my shed, the wood is stacked five foot high eight across and three rows deep. On the newly completed left hand side it is just four foot wide but there are now six rows. On the far right there is enough kindling to keep us going all winter.  I am done.  Reader R from Cornwall will be green with envy. I have channelled my inner Charles Ingalls and am done for the year.

Sunday 1 September 2024

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