The furniture polish recipe below is an old one I’ve found in dozens of books. My favourite is called the Merry Wives of Windsor Balm. I’m not sure what the addition of lemon balm does to this, as the smell of turps somewhat overpowers the lemon scent, but it is such a good polish I didn’t mess with the recipe. …
I never managed to master crochet but I know a lot of you will have. Which is why I’m sharing this lovely pattern for a great old-fashioned sunburst pillow. I would love a couple of these for my sunroom up north so I might have to have another go with the crochet needles! Click here  for access to the pattern.
Kombucha scoby I wrote about making my own kombucha a few weeks ago and it is going very well. I’m getting 1 litre of lovely fizzy kombucha a week, which is just enough for me, as no one else in my household will touch it! I’ve been flavouring it with grapefruit juice taken off my tree up north and it …
Our skin is the largest in our body, in fact, it covers your entire body and has a surface area of around 2 square metres. And it is permeable, absorbing toxins that come into contact with it, and transporting them into the bloodstream. So my rule is pretty much this: if I wouldn’t eat it then why would I put …
I suddenly realised on New Year’s Eve that I was supposed to start the no shampoo challenge on Christmas Day and completely forgot! I then realised that I am regularly having to tone the blonde part of my hair to blend better with the grey I’m growing in so there really isn’t much sense in going shampoo free just yet. …