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The Great Outdoors: June 2013

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Sunday, 23 June 2013. Birch Sap Wine Bottled! Last month, Anna helped me to 'rack-off' the Birch Sap wine. This is simply syphoning the wine into another sterile demijohn to. Leave the sediment behind. The sediment is a build-up of dead yeast cells;. If the wine is left too long on the sediment it can affect the final taste. We took a final hydrometer reading which was virtually off the scale! This means that almost all the sugar has been converted and the wine will be. Friday, 14 June 2013. Birch Sap Wi...

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The Great Outdoors: March 2013

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Sunday, 31 March 2013. For this Easter greeting, I couldn't find a suitable photograph from pictures I'd taken this year; I wanted a cheerful blue sky background! So I reverted to one I'd taken a few years ago on a photography day-course up at the London Wetlands Centre. Thursday, 28 March 2013. If I have any interested friends left in 'blogland' it will be a miracle! Someone once said that the art of good wine making is to spend 70% of your time sterilising everything. Sunday, 24 March 2013. Welcome to ...

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The Great Outdoors: Christmas Remembered

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Friday, 24 January 2014. No apologies for a little look back to Christmas -. It was so very enjoyable for us and I am feeling rather reluctant to forget it all! Much of the fun was in the preparations - including making up our own hampers for presents from. Some of the preserves and brews we had been compiling. Karen made several Christmas Cakes (including one for us of course! I filtered off my Sloe Gin infusion. Homemade fudge - yummy! And of course can be kept and used afterwards! Love the idea of tho...

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The Great Outdoors: Dragon Harp

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Friday, 15 November 2013. Firstly here 's the design traced on. Right, deep breath, and initial colours blocked in. Detail of the head. And as you can see, the dragon's tail and wings wrap around the whole soundbox - great fun! Finally, the name of the harps' eventual recipient is incorporated in the tail. 16 November 2013 at 06:10. Stunning work of art. 17 November 2013 at 14:11. Thanks very much Ingemar. 16 November 2013 at 07:16. Nice to follow in real time your stunning Art work, so original! 10 Janu...

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The Great Outdoors: November 2013

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Friday, 15 November 2013. Firstly here 's the design traced on. Right, deep breath, and initial colours blocked in. Detail of the head. And as you can see, the dragon's tail and wings wrap around the whole soundbox - great fun! Finally, the name of the harps' eventual recipient is incorporated in the tail. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Blackberry Wine - Thirteenth Bottle (C3), 20th-21st August 2016. FIVE YEARS/ 600 000 page views. North Downs and beyond . yet again. Fungi a...

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The Great Outdoors: December 2014

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Monday, 22 December 2014. Preparing for Christmas. 2015! Here is just one view down 'our' Loke. A loke is a Norfolk word for a short, narrow lane which becomes a farm track that eventually leads to a dead-end. Ours fits that description with the bonus that it ends up as a fabulous footpath which includes some very fruitful hedgerows - great for foraging! During the initial fermentation, the yeast loves plenty of oxygen, but as fermentation slows the liquid is then strained into a demijohn and air is excl...

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The Great Outdoors: November 2014

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014. Back from a 'Blogging Sabbatical'. Firstly, I'm so sorry I haven't posted anything for most of this year - oops! Yes early this year we were graced by a very special visitor, none other than His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent! He seemed to thoroughly enjoy his visit and we loved the fact that he was very relaxed and 'hands-on'. If that wasn't enough, few weeks later we then found ourselves playing host to all the mayors of Surrey. And as this post seems to be largely an exer...

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The Great Outdoors: July 2013

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Thursday, 11 July 2013. Daisy-chain Skylark in the making. A customer ordered a harp and sent us a photograph of a daisy-chain taped onto the soundboard of a Skylark harp she's borrowing. She then requested that we paint this onto the soundboard of her new harp - so we did. It was a lot of fun to paint! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Daisy-chain Skylark in the making. Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Blackberry Wine - Thirteenth Bottle (C3), 20th-21st August 2016. FIVE YEARS/ 600 000 page views. The Flora a...

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The Great Outdoors: Harvest Home!

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Thursday, 10 October 2013. This time of year we are usually very busy making the most of the produce. That the garden and countryside has to offer - and this year is certainly no exception. Karen kicked off by making this amazing Spiced Blackberry and Brandy Liqueur. The finished bottles of delicious liqueur. I pinched the left-over pulp from Karen's liqueur and added it to my Blackberry and Elderberry wine. It filled two demijohns (9 litres or 16 pints). The aromatic smell from the bowl was fantastic!

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The Great Outdoors: Preparing for Christmas... 2015!

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Monday, 22 December 2014. Preparing for Christmas. 2015! Here is just one view down 'our' Loke. A loke is a Norfolk word for a short, narrow lane which becomes a farm track that eventually leads to a dead-end. Ours fits that description with the bonus that it ends up as a fabulous footpath which includes some very fruitful hedgerows - great for foraging! During the initial fermentation, the yeast loves plenty of oxygen, but as fermentation slows the liquid is then strained into a demijohn and air is excl...