There were fires yesterday South of Daylesford, they started late in the afternoon. With a change predicted later on bringing SW winds, there was the danger of the fire front being pushed towards Daylesford. That meant there was a risk fire, not a high one up here in Hepburn, but enough to be a concern [...]
I got to do some preserving today, the plums we had picked off the neighbour’s tree yesterday. There was roughly one polystyrene box full. I picked the stems off the plums, put them whole into a saucepan, added boiling water to about 1/4 of the way up, and brought them to simmering point. No need [...]
Today us WWOOFers picked fallen apples from the orchard for cooking. Many of the fallen apples have fallen due to the strong winds we’ve had recently. Others have fallen due to being infected with codling moth. There are a number of varieties of apples in the orchard, each of which ripen at different times. Those [...]
We started the day cleaning up the house. Nearly all they use are face washers (or toweling cloths), brooms and dustpans, and ash from the stove. The cloths are used for dusting, all the floors are swept as they are mudbrick or wood, so there’s no need for a vacuum cleaner. The ash is used [...]
Today we spent the morning in the kitchen. I was hoping to do some preserving while I’m here. However there was frost in January this year that prevented the fruit from setting, so unfortunately there’s not a lot of fruit to preserve. We did do some preserving this morning though. We made kimchi, a Korean [...]