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		<title>Digging for gold</title>
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This is how my mother describes the excitement of digging for potatoes. Despite having watched the tiny shoots turn into luscious foliage over the last few months, there is always that doubt in the back of your mind that, when you come to dig them up, there might be nothing there after all. So, there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost self-sufficient&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, in lettuces at least!

And chives, mint and parsley. Not quite enough on their own for a feast, but I did manage to adapt a recipe from Nigella&#8217;s &#8216;Forever Summer&#8217; book to make a meal out of them.

The recipe is for bulgar wheat salad with pink-seared lamb, which Nigella describes as &#8216;loosely based on tabbouleh&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth spurt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Easter bank holiday when we first planted out the vegetable patch properly. Some garlic had gone in the ground some months earlier, before Christmas, but it was only on 4 April that we sowed the onions, potatoes and rhubarb. It was amazing how quickly they started sprouting, and now, just 6 weeks later, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fox returns&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and this time she wasn&#8217;t alone. Unfortunately this was the best photo that I was able to get of them, as they didn&#8217;t hang around for long. In the few moments that I saw them I had assumed that the one at the back of the photo was a cub, because it was slightly smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Ermine &#8211; Spilosoma Lubricipeda</title>
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Back in August last year I went to visit an old friend who lives in Manchester and we ended up talking about a childhood enthusiasm that I had for keeping caterpillars. When I came down for breakfast the next morning, there was a jam jar on the kitchen table with a hairy black caterpillar in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game pie with shortcrust pastry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a nice dish to take advantage of the last few weeks of the game season. In Winchester farmers market last weekend there was quite a bit of end of season game being sold on the cheap, so I bought a bag of game pie mix and a pheasant. The pheasant is still in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chitting potatoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it is still a bit early to start putting anything in the ground, it is time to start &#8216;chitting&#8217; potatoes. By putting seed potatoes in a cool, light position you can encourage them to start developing sprouts (although I&#8217;ve always found that if you leave potatoes for long enough in the bottom of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday brunch of scrambled eggs on toasted muffins with bacon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that all the best weekend breakfasts centre around eggs and scrambled eggs on toasted muffins with bacon is probably my favourite of all.

However, it has to be done properly and if the eggs aren&#8217;t smooth and creamy then it&#8217;s just not the same. Having spent a lot of time attempting to perfect the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban fox</title>
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Many people see them as just a pest, but it was hard to feel that when I woke up this morning to see this lovely creature curled up asleep in the corner of the back garden. He looked very peaceful and in good condition and helpfully looked up at just the right point when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanforks.com/other/urban-fox/</link>
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		<title>Prosciutto, goats cheese and membrillo mouthfuls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These delicious little mouthfuls are very easy to prepare and extremely moorish. They have a lovely combination of flavours, a fruity sweetness from the membrillo (quince paste) that combines brilliantly with the salty umami taste of the prosciutto and goats cheese.

I first came across them in one of my favourite local restaurants, del Parc near [...]]]></description>
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