Nancy Reading

mossgiel x torpenhow real organic cow-with-calf 2kg truckle matured for 6 months....ooh, so tempting to buy my self an xmas pressie for next summer.....

Finally got round to sorting the wellies (I'm obviously in love with them...)

Della inspects the dead wellies

Tell me why I ended up with 5 left hand wellies and 1 right hand welly? I must be very right footed. How ever when put in the bath none were any good so I have cut off the tops and will check out the thread on dead wellies for uses for the material. They are at least more compact when cut down and aren't cluttering up our hallway.

I made a boo-boo with my kindling this year. Normally I leave the thinner bits of my coppice wood in piles and after a year or six months they can just be broken to length - easy! However I neglected to get the sticks up over the summer and of course we aren't getting enough dry weather to dry them out now. Even after a couple of weeks in the wood shed the sticks are still a bit damp - not ideal for fire starting! If I could leave them in the house a week or so then they are dry enough, but I've run out of the good stuff and need kindling now! I've found a quick cheat; by putting them in my stove bottom oven (which I use for drying herbs/mushrooms etc.) overnight, the kindling is dry enough to use straight away....lesson learnt (perhaps). The lower oven get warm, but never hot enough to be a fire hazard.

It's probably good to have a consistent feel for the drawings... You want them primarily to be easy to understand. Maybe start a thread in art just for the drawings? Have a go! Your illustrator will need something to work from anyhow and a sketch gives them a good start.

I'm fleshing out a new ambition - to be able to sweep my house and put the dust in my compost heap without worrying about putting microplastics in it..... It's mostly dog hair, but it's amazing what else seems to get on the floor!

Nathanael Szobody wrote:Nancy,

Do I hear you volunteering?

As I said, I'm not an illustrator, just a scribbler - if I can help though?

mini-hugel

Well done Nathanael - maybe you are someone! I do like the idea of focusing on zones. I think they sometimes get a bit of a backseat.

I would think that if you can get the word out, that crowdfunding might be an option for you. There are quite a few authors who have launched their books that way (although it is a fair amount of work in itself). Another idea might be to use the ebook sales to subsidise the hard copies (or vice versa)

Maybe there are illustrators on permies that would like to step up. I'd help if my scrawls were good enough, or these days you can get some good results with AI (if you felt that was ethical).

Gaurī Rasp wrote:Looking through seed catalogues.

and ordering some First new ones arrived this week. I couldn't resist some camelina sativa from seeds of Scotland .....oil is something that is less easy for me to grow here (too cool for sunflowers). https://mountainroseherbs.com/camelina-oil say it is often foundin flax fields, so I wonder whether I should try a polyculture next year, or for simplicity grow it alone.

Hmm - planning next year's growing area I love antasy gardens!

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