Muddling Through Motherhood

I’ve been reading a bit lately about peak oil and climate change and that sort of thing. This is because I’ve found that having Rowan has made me worry about the future, and because we have friends who have managed to effectively (and not deliberately) make me sit up and notice. I’m a bit too scared to read the real doom and gloom ‘we’re all going to starve’ type stuff and have instead been focusing on more upbeat things about the small things we can do to help – both to reduce our impact on the world and to prepare ourselves in the event that things do get really bad.

To that end, while the enthusiasm remains I am going to, in the style of an excellent blog I have been reading, set myself one task each week. It might be introducing a new thing into our daily lives or it might be trying out something new, or doing something different for a week (I am liking Jo’s no meat for a week challenge this week). It might also be something a bit fun if I’m going for something every week. We’ll see.

This week I have decided to do one thing in two parts. I am going to make some jam – learning to preserve the things that we’re growing. However I only have a small blackberry patch at the moment (and bramble jelly is my favourite) so I am going to also do a bit of urban foraging - for something that I can definitely recognise and know when it is ripe

I shall undoubtedly blog about my jam making adventures later!