Worm's World

On the right of the picture below you can see our only harvest from the year - some sad spring onions, despite having a wonderful raised bed. Since we are rubbish at gardening, but good at planting herbs and letting them get on with it, we decided to forgo planting veg and just dedicate the raised bed to a culinary herb garden By my calculation We have to drink another 50 or so bottles of ale or cider before I can finish my edging...

Sorry it's been a bit quiet on here - I've been away, in the deep south of the USA for the last 3 weeks. It's been awesome (but I did miss being able to cook) We took our time and travelled around a fair bit... Since we couldn't guarantee fridges in the hotels we stayed we invested a whole $4.99 in a polystyrene ice-box on our 2nd day so we could keep things cool and have a small larder of food, and more importantly cold beer when we reached our destination.  And this gives you an idea of what I ate day by day (Pete mainly ate Catfish & shrimp until we got to Nashville 5th pancakes & bacon - airline Food - crinkle cut fries-  sap (self assembled picnic) 6th pancakes & bacon - sap - Subway / rice and beans at Vaughns 7th beignets - sap - Mexican 8th eggs/grits/sausage - sap - deep fried pickles & poboys 9th eggs benedict on biscuits - sap - gumbo 10th Blueberry pancakes - sap - Creole dinner 11th beignets - burger - seafood @ underground 119 12th make...

Last night was the 5th annual Stafford beer festival - backed by CAMRA  and it's nice to see it grow as an event year on year. It's also held in a Catholic high school, which amuses me no end, I'm not sure why, it works really well and the beer festival in Liverpool was held in the Catholic cathedrals crypt so maybe it's totally normal. Anyway, I'm quite a fan of beer festivals, in that I'm quite a fan of beer - I like cider and perry too - but they tend to be lethally alcoholic at a festival and mixing them both lies madness and drunkenness. What I couldn't help noticing is how very 'British' it seems, and where do all these people come from - and more to the point why do some of them still have mullets (how do you even still have a mullet in this day and age). But there's lots of people stood around peering at a festival listing, trying to juggle a tankard, a pen, a beer and a programme - working on what they want to drink next based o...