My books arived.
So far for this year’s birthday (now Mathilda38!) I have a got a Jamie Oliver cook book, ‘Ray Mears wild food’, ‘Genome’ and ‘The anthropology of modern human teeth’. My friends know me so well.
The surprise gem was the Ray Mears book. I bought it as a simple ‘what wild stuff you can eat’ guide, [...]
Mathilda 62, slugs nil.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. And then some more eeeeeeeeeew.
I tipped out my slug traps this morning, and I couldn’t believe it. Four traps produced 62 of the little sods, pickled in sweet cider. I have to say, cider works better than beer, but maybe it’s because this was extra strong cider. This is a bit expensive to do [...]


