Tag Archives: Twitter

What’s going on elsewhere?

Posted on by

This week I have been posting pictures of my recent trip to Whinfell in Cumbria but what has been going on elsewhere?

New Blog on the Block: [Girl] Gardening

LogoColorTextBelowNew blog [Girl] Gardening is a blog about a girl who is a trainee garden designer and allotmenteer. It is the sister blog to Little Muddy Boots and will be featuring posts about life as a student and first time allotment owner.

If you follow Little Muddy Boots on Twitter then you may have seen the blog posts as they go up, alternatively head over to the site and sign up for email updates.

Time to Read: Edible Book Club

LogoColorTextBelowThis week, on-line book club Edible Books is coming to the end of their first week reading Toast by Nigel Slater. It is getting some mixed reviews but is like a trip down a sweet filled memory lane for the British members of the club.

Join the delicious debate on Twitter.

Blogs I Read: My Tiny Plot

My Tiny Plot was the first blog that I ever read about gardening. I used to read it every week before setting up Little Muddy Boots but somewhere between motherhood, student life and writing about my own garden I stopped reading but this weekend I took half an hour to see what has been going on in Gillian Carson’s Tiny Plot. It is no longer tiny and no longer in the UK as she has relocated to the US. My Tiny Plot is a weblog of gardening, vegetable growing and family life.

Blogs I Read: The Rowdy Chowgirl

The Rowdy Chowgirl was one of the first food blogs that I ever read and one of the few that I still read now. Her blog is packed full of food and travel stories and is a delight to read. This year Christina and I joined forces and created Edible Books (see above).

Blogs I Read: Garden Slave

I have only just found Garden Slave’s blog by way of Twitter. It is written by John, a fellow Yorkshire person, who now lives in the Lake District – one of my favourite places in the world. He writes about gardening, trips down memory lane and reports on a somewhat bohemian life.

And finally…..

I was going to write something about Twitter but for the last few days it has all been about X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing and The Royal Baby. None of which I am too bothered about.

Edible Book Club

Posted on by

So, my friend Christina (aka Rowdy Chow Girl) and I were idly chattering away last week on Twitter when we had an idea to start an on-line book club. Reading is a particular passion of mine and has been since I was a little girl. I almost always end the day with my head in a book, curled up in bed or on the sofa with a cup of tea . I confess to loving books that contain a food theme, the kind of books that make your mouth water and get you running for the fridge to cook up something tasty but I also love easy to read chick-lit, thrillers, comedy, autobiographies, books about travel and the odd classic.

As the ideas flowed back and forth we decided that our club should have the essence of food running through it, but we wouldn’t discount throwing the odd surprise choice in there from time to time.  This in no way means that we are going to be reading and discussing cookery books – can you imagine trawling through Jamie Oliver’s latest weighty tome  and then discussing each chapter?  Half way thorough each month we will throw open the discussion to allow members to put forward their book selection for the following month, we will then make a choice from what has been suggested. For  our first book  the  choice has been made by Christina and  is  Make the Bread, Buy The Butter by Jennifer Reese. 

Jennifer Reese is a new author to me, (I suppose that is the beauty of a book club – it introduces you to authors that may well have escaped your attention otherwise) and I am really looking forward to reading about how, after her redundancy, she took on the task of trying to make things that she had previously paid others to do – everything from pita bread to peanut butter with, if the reviews are to be believed, very entertaining results. I am also very excited to find out what others feel about the book and the discussion that it may provoke.

So, if you are feeling like doing some reading, why not come and join us over at ediblebookclub.com, on Twitter @ediblebookclub and on Facebook. We will be discussing the book on a weekly basis but feel free to chip in when you like.