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We went geocaching today for the first time in ages. It’s been a hot weekend, filled with breakfasts and lunches on the patio, bike rides across town and lazy mornings spent soaking up the sun.
So it seemed only natural [...]

The Orchard in 1910
I don’t know when I last went to Starbucks. Ages ago. A couple of years, perhaps. Our most commonly-used coffee haunt is Coffee Link on the dockside in Ipswich. It’s independent and friendly, and it does good cakes.
As we found ourselves not entirely coincidentally in Cambridge this weekend, Coffee Link was obviously [...]

The home-made elderflower champagne is still proving explosive. We’ve steam-sealed some caps onto the bottles, but even they don’t seem to be up to the job of keeping the volatile liquid contained. So for the time being we’ve put them inside a steel dustbin half-filled with cold water to regulate the temperature and put on [...]

So at the weekend we made elderflower champagne for no better reason than the fact that the hedgerows are absolutely dripping elder flowers at the moment.
Plus I’d always fancied it.
It turns out it’s actually quite easy. We cleaned out the fermenter that we’d used to brew our beer and dropped in 20 elder heads that [...]