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January Vegetarian Meals

Starting January 2020 off right with a few days of vegetarian meals before a jaunt to Morocco for the real thing. Trying to make use of the slow cooker where possible to pre-cook / make life easy and delicious. 1. Ful medames, muhammara dip, falafal & pita 2. Slow cooker mushroom sauce & pasta 3. Spicy dal, naan, coleslaw 4. Vegetarian chilli & potatoes 5. Sesame rice with terriyaki mushrooms 6. Chinese noodles from the local takeaway 7. Spicy cauliflower, brussels sprouts with french bean, pea & tomato salad 8. Burrito bowls 9. Moroccan vegetable stew with couscourse Shopping List 3 kinds of mushrooms x 2 ginger coriander x 3 garlic red pepper yellow pepper fresh chillis tenderstem broccoli red onion x 5 yellow onion x 2 plum tomatoes x 2 cauliflower french beans butternut squash sweet potato can of tomato sauce can of chopped tomatoes x 2 egg noodles naan pita bread 2 cans of beans (for chilli - any type) salsa canned corn canned...

Weeds - by John Walker

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I was given this book for Christmas due to my ongoing battle with weeds on the allotment. Very enlightening and an easy read. Apparently nature abhors bare soil as much as it does a vacuum and hence: weeds. I have a much better understanding of the role of weeds, or, unwanted plants in both soil preservation and nutrition as well an idea of the most common weeds, if they're annual or perennial and what to do about them. 

The resurrection...

This blog has been quietly resurrected. Let's see if anyone notices. Sure, it's been dead for seven years and I'm not even sure if anyone has blogs anymore but I miss it so why not give it another go. Let's see, what have you missed in the last 7 year? - Moved to Uganda - Started an online magazine called IN Kampala - Shut-down an online magazine - Moved to Pakistan - Got married - Did a Masters at Cambridge - Wrote a book called IN Lahore (notice a trend?) - Moved to the UK - Wrote another book called Staying Safe in Your Gap Year - Did a TED Talk - Started running a company called Safer Edge And that's pretty much it. You're up to speed. Welcome.