Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
I plan to dig a mountain of Jerusalem artichokes tomorrow, to take to Sibella’s flea market on Saturday, along with my favourite recipe for Jerusalem artichoke soup. We joke that the letter ‘f’ should be placed before the word artichoke when...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
I’m also tempted to take along a handful of tiny antique French terracotta pots to The Society IncWinter Flea Market on Saturday morning. Nothing equals the colour, texture, the patina of authentic ones. I was lucky to get my hands on a stash of them recently...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Kitchen Gardening
Ah…..a new day, a new week, a new school term and focus returns! The week’s highlight for me is to prepare for Sibella Court’s pavement Flea Market this coming Saturday morning, 19 July, at The Society Inc. in Paddington. The notion of just what...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
Waking to news this morning of expected gale force winds was not what I wanted to hear….as today was earmarked for cutting and transporting armfuls of plant material for propagation, to my delightful new friends at The Secret Garden, Richmond (and the road...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
Today Sibella Court will be signing copies of her iconic book ‘Bowerbird’ at The Society inc. in Paddington between 2 & 4pm. She suggests you ‘bring your own books – hopefully full of notes & slightly dog-eared’, or to buy another...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
I was so thrilled to pick up these four darling pelargoniums from Sandy Crisp’s stall at the Harper’s Mansion Plant Fair at Berrima on Sunday. I thought they set off my pale green plant stand rather well….(and now it’s time to get them into...
