Adventures in the Czech Republic

I was amused to see that the Czech Ministry of Agriculture has just announced that in 2008 Czechs collected 2.7 billion crowns worth of wild...

I must be due another post about picking mushrooms – why it is the height of the season! Recently I have been pondering what skills/abilitie...

This week I have been managing the work arising from an outbreak of dryrot in the kitchen. Inevitably in an old house, which had not had a g...

I am in England. And it is wonderful here, but I feel the Czech Republic beginning to creep into my thoughts. Perhaps it is because I know I...

In my last post I talked about the Czechs as a nation of hunters and in previous posts I have talked about the Czech obsession with gatherin...