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When I tell people I live in Essex, they assume it’s grim urbania. The reason I live here is that it’s not. I have access to some of the most beautiful countryside you could ever imagine. With a desire to make as much of this as possible, we
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This post also features on the delightful Colchester Chronicle I’ve either lived, studied or worked in Sunny Colch for almost all of my life. Whilst I could happily point you in the direction of the finest watering hole (The Brickies, Bergholt Road) or the highlight of the cultural calendar
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Kate Bradbury writes: I spent the majority of last week trying to identify the solitary bees in my mum’s front garden. For about three weeks each spring there are clouds of them, all buzzing around frantically looking for somewhere to nest (usually the lawn and borders). I used to
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Thanks to Jason Kottke for finding this utter gem. A little story about bad backups, rm * and how a need to work from home saved Toy Story 2 from being a distant memory. Lovely stuff.
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Its a common refrain from many Twitter biographies, designed to protect you if what you say doesn’t quite fit; but it’s worth thinking about what protection it really gives. If what you do means you have to think or speak on behalf of someone other that just ‘you’
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A bit of googling inspired by a magnificent spread of Dandelions on the lawn this weekend threw up a tantalisingly easy sounding recipe for wine; amounting to boiling up a load of dandelion leaves with some crushed raisins, adding some yeast and fermenting. A visit to the in-laws yielded some
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In response to overwhelming demand [1. Read: A few, relentless, questions at work] here is the first post about my Butts. Bought in an attempt to stave off the hosepipe ban [2. Which was announced the day after we finished the laborious task of making our raised beds] these two
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1. Ketchup for Bacon. 2. HP for Sausages. 3. Toast your bread. 4. Fry your egg. 5. Make the tea first.
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Kate Bradbury writes about how the countryside isn’t really able to support native wildlife anymore — and that we should try and use garden space to try and balance that. Meadows, woodland, hedgerows, even long stubby bits of grass, all represent habitats for some creature or other. Gardens can’t
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BusinessInsider published a leaked version of ‘The AOL Way’ over 12 months ago, but I’ve just found it thanks to Clay Johnson’s fab ’The Information Diet’. It’s a fascinating document which explains the detail behind AOL’s content production business; their farm. Everything is driven towards getting
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Word of Mouth ponders possibly the most important of all culinary questions in as article which is almost as satisfying to read as a fry up is to eat: To grill or fry? Fry. This is not a healthy meal. Trying to pretend it is - and cooking your bacon
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Instagram’s Kevin Systrom, speaking at the Federated Media’s Signal in March this year: More here Facebook knows that its inability to make money from its mobile products is a potentially major risk to its upcoming IPO. From their S-1 filing: Full document here I think the real reason