Stand up for UK Shooting Sports

In light of the recent tragedy in Cumbria, the UK’s influential parliamentary Home Affairs Committee has announced that it will conduct an inquiry into Firearms Control. The Committee has called for written evidence from interested parties. Anyone can make a submission and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is encouraging all those who [...]

Making Jam

It will soon be the time of year when blackberries are ripe for picking. I love blackberries, but I’ve never tried making Blackberry Jam, so this year I decided to give it a go. Raspberry and Strawberry jams are my favourites, but you can preserve pretty much all fruit and vegetables by turning them into [...]

Ten Benefits to Growing Your Own

1. Your own fruit and vegetables taste better than shop bought produce.

They really do! Maybe it’s because they are fresher, but I find my own produce has a  much “stronger” taste than the plastic wrapped produce from the shop, or even that sold at farmers markets.

2. Your home produced food has not [...]

Homeward Bound

Well it’s been a mad few weeks what with one thing another. We’ve entered the silly season at my day job, which has necessitated quite a bit of unexpected business travel. That’s pretty disruptive to everything else, including posting new articles, however I may have discovered a solution to that little challenge.

Exciting news! We’ve also [...]

A Sport we CAN be Proud of!

Seemingly we haven’t had a lot to be proud of sportingwise in this country recently, although we have our fingers crossed for Andy Murray. I thought it was therefore useful to bring to your attention a sport where we have some phenomenal winners, and in which we still lead the world!

“But Andy, this isn’t a [...]