Testing out or rather experimenting with the ingredients sold at Summer Naturals and now at The Crafters Shop has been thoroughly enjoyable, I have concocted all sorts, purely for my own use, laundry powder, soap nut shampoo, dishwasher powder, cleaning sprays galore. One of my first experiments back in 2006 was…

My grandma’s white enamel bread bin was huge. Bread was often homemade or bought as a whole unsliced loaf wrapped in paper. Cakes, buns, and biscuits were baked regularly and stored there too, also wrapped in paper. In the early 1970s, when I was a lass, crumpets were a favourite…

Fish! We adopted a fish pond with 7 Koi Carp, we had absolutely no idea about Koi and their needs, we were handed a lot of chemical and had to get on with it, Bicarbonate of Soda and  Epsom Salts were not included. As it was, after one fish sadly…

Are Aphids attacking your garden? Let me tell you how to get rid of them. 2026 seems to have been a decent year so far for aphid munching ladybirds or ladybugs as they are known with earlier than usual sightings. 2025 saw a ladybird boom. So here was me thinking that…