Posted by tim, October 21, 2010
When Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, there’s nothing to be done but gather around the hearth and roast chestnuts in your cozy living room (or outdoors.)
Things You’ll Need:
Firewood
Chestnuts
Salt
Frying Pan With Lid
Oven Mitts
Paring Knives
- Choose a utensil that has a long handle such as a frying pan
- Clean dirt off of chestnuts.
- Cut an X into the shell of each chestnut with a paring knife to avoid a buildup of steam inside the nuts.
- Place chestnuts in pan and cover.
- Roast over the coals of an open hearth for 15 to 25 minutes or until the chestnuts are tender and the shells are beginning to open.
- Peel chestnuts when they are cool enough to handle and serve with salt if desired.
If your trying this outside (or inside) keep your feet nice and toasty with a pair of our fair isle 100% wool socks.
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Posted by tim, October 18, 2010
And why does he want us rugged up in this natural fiber? UK Vogue reports that a couple of years ago HRH was “shocked to discover that it often costs more to shear a sheep than a farmer would be paid for it’s wool”. The market undervaluing raw materials and the lure of fast fashion at super-cheap prices have given us a glut of synthetic woollens on the high-street. Prince Charles wants to turn this around. What’s his plan? One of his strategies has been to establish ‘Wool Week’ , a London based event culminating in the opening of an online auction that will run until 9th December.
Other schemes to get us hot and bothered about wool that have been witnessed on the streets of London this week include a flock of yellow sheep bleeting outside Selfridges and a re-enactment of ‘One Man And His Dog’ in Saville Row.
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Posted by sally, October 13, 2010
Spanish designers Benet, Saida Dalmau, Anna Julibert, and Carmen Vilar have created this beautiful design for a spiral garden. It just won a designboom IIDA award and we can see why. It features a botanical-like-garden place where people can take a stroll, 170 spots to park your bike and a compost centre for you to drop of your scraps. It’s a wonder of sustainable design, urban farming and botanical beauty all at once.
The designers envisage it as a ‘green heart’ where humans and nature can co-exist. An allotment in the the sky.
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