Moving the site from Google to WordPress was accompanied by a change from HTTP to HTTPS. The Ordinance Survey mapping application used here validates the account using a URL and key code combination. The new URL was being rejected by the app which is now out of support. In the middle of Covid lockdown OS […]
The interactive maps on this site use an App provided by the UK Ordinance Survey. OpenSpace was made available 7 or 8 years ago. When married with a gpx file of location coordinates it provides a great illustration of a route superimposed on the standard OS maps. These can be zoomed in or out or
Why the [ordinance survey] maps don’t work Read More »
A new book by Vanessa Kimbell inspires a re-assessment of sourdough bread by Paul Myerscough.
Saturday Sourdough Read More »
Paul Myerscough provides a live link to a bird box camera.
Birdy: Business as Usual Read More »
The season for picking ransoms or wild garlic is short. Paul Myerscough reflects on the gathering of ransoms and using them in bread making.
Ransoms again! Wild Garlic Bread Read More »
Paul Myerscough says there is another way to prepare those dried beans. If they are fresh they can functions as seeds. Sprout them to create a much more nutritious food than the usual Dal or bean casserole.
Sprout some beans in this season of growth! Read More »
In spring time breadmaking can take on a seasonal note by using common nettles as an ingredient. Here’s how Paul Myerscough went about it!
Nettle Season Once More – Nettle Bread revisited! Read More »
When a favoured event cannot offer you a place then look elsewhere! Replace long distance backpacking with a long walk or run. Here Paul Myerscough looks at the Lakeland 100.
If not the TGOC then …. why not the Lakeland 100? Read More »
The real bread campaign is a champion of the small baker and advocates against false claims from big bread manufactures who produce faux sourdough says Paul Myerscough.
Bread on my sleeve Read More »
The TGO Challenge – there’s lots of advice out there – so my small contribution may not add much. At least this catharsis will allow me to move on in my reflections – and focus on my new challenge for 2019. Some may think backpacking is backpacking is backpacking. But Scotland always has rain which