WHAT TO DO WITH THE RHUBARB?

After making a couple of rhubarb crumbles I was left wondering about the making of alcohol as I do really like the rhubarb gin and the vodka that you can buy. How hard could it be?  After reading the different recipes I decided to have a try but I didn’t have a demi jon bottle so I got a few litre bottles cleaned and sterilised them. What I didn’t realise was the bottleneck is very small on a bottle so I had to cut the rhubarb up even smaller to get it in the bottle. I also had some strawberries…

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WHITSTABLE CASTLE AND TAROT CARDS!

What a gorgeous castle, I cannot believe that I have never visited here before especially as it is under an hour from Folkestone along the coast. I took myself off on Sunday to the psychic fair, I loved the idea of a witches market and was interested to see what it was all about. At the back of the castle, you have the tea rooms with many tables and chairs set up outside with views of the gardens. I had a pot of tea and a lovely scone with cream and jam, it really was so relaxing there, I could…

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FOLKESTONE’S WRITING GROUP

WRITE BY THE SEA This writing group has gone from strength to strength during the pandemic, in fact, we all managed to produce an anthology called Ghosts By The Sea. These stories are all set in iconic places around the town, there is even a map that you can follow to read the stories at each place. We all corresponded by email and WhatsApp, self-publishing last year. It is free on Kindle and available to purchase the book here on Amazon. A collection of ghost stories set against the background of Folkestone on the Kent coast written by a group…

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TREE CUTTING – N.J. APPS FOLKESTONE, KENT

One minute your bay tree is small enough that you can keep it all trimmed to a decent height, then in the blink of an eye it’s so big you have no way of reaching it to cut it down. That’s when you call in the experts, so my landlord got N.J. Apps to pop along and do the job. How easy they make it all look when you have the correct tools plus they even cleaned up after themselves. Highly recommended. It is now half the size but still gives a bit of privacy from the house behind, they…

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