Each weekend we head off to a Farmers Market to buy our fruit and vegetables.
The taste is so fresh and vibrant, unlike the supermarket equivalents that travel halfway around the world.
Recently we bought Squash from Tonga (we shouldn’t have due to food miles but there was no local butternut squash available) - we felt bad for doing so but it seems that it was scarce in Europe and ironically cheaper as well.
This weekend we will be at Wimbledon so will be looking for a Farmers Market in South London or towards East Sussex / Kent.
We recently came across http://www.farmersmarkets.net/ and use this as our resource for research.
Not all markets are listed on it (like Harpenden - third Sunday of the month) but the ones with a level of accreditation are.
Through farmers markets we have discovered Pheasant, Quince, Mature cheese and a dazzling array of herbs.
We support organic thinking and always take our recycled jute bags along, declining to take wrapped produce.
Have you been to a farmers market lately?
Leisure Time farmers markets, organic
If you haven’t done so already I would recommend downloading Piclens, a fab application for viewing photos, websites, media on your screen.
I picked this on from 30DC and will be using it to view images on Google in future and when choosing from stock images.
Don’t let me hold you up from downloading this a minute longer!
Blogging Tips application, media, photos, piclens, websites
I’m trialling the fish theme for it’s feed features and layout and have already noticed a small increase in people picking up my feeds on Flock, the newly launched social-bookmarking-friendly-browser.
I was put onto this by the 30DC team and have spent the last 2 days optimising it and not have all my favourite feeds at my fingertips, inclusing tools like Twitter, Twhirl, Grease Monkeys and Google Reader in colour.
Tweet me and ask me how @getnoticed
The theme you use can tell people a lot about you, what type of style (or lack of) that you have and also the way you like to communicate. Some blogs are dark and others are fresh and clean.
Many will argue that the content is what keeps people coming back and to an extent that is true, but you also have to remember that if a site doesn’t look very good then you don’t stand a chance of getting repeat visitors.
I use Alexking.org as my themes browser as this site always has a great list of funky new blog themes. I suggest you check this out and keep the themes evolving.
Blogging Tips 30DC, rss, themes, wordpress
After what seems like an eternity I have decided to give my blog a little attention and gear up for the start of a rather busy summer, kicking off with the Thirty Day Challenge
Much has changed in the technology used for blogging since I took my blog offline (more on that later) and I will be adopting the new Web2.0 tools, social bookmarking and enabling more interaction than you ever thought possible.
At one stage Facebook took over the headlines but now the tables are turning back to blogging, and an emerging tool known as Twitter, with tweets replacing blog entries and enabling pushes to mobile phones.
Using cool tools like summize.com you can keep track of any number of keywords on Twitter…
I’m not going to give too much away at this stage, but if you would like further information head over to Twitter.com and send me a message @getnoticed
The blog will be continually revamped and will link to a number of projects I am working on at present.
Keep in touch and bookmark me, or better still - grab my RSS feed !
Inzvestor inzvestor.co.uk, rss, social bookmarking, twitter
The Robin’s are nesting in the bird-boxes on the neighbours wall. Hopefully there will be bundles of little Robin’s in a few weeks time.
Rock-on Robin!
Inzvestor
It’s been an age since I last blogged here. There has been so much going on over the past few weeks that I have struggled to keep up with it all.
Work has kept me up all hours of the day and night, but I’ve been learning a lot so it hasn’t been all bad.
We’ve been adding personalised touches to our house to make it feel a little more homely. I still can’t believe it’s ‘ours’ sometimes, but the bills and mortgage payments remind me that it is.
Roll on Friday night - I’ve more DIY to do!
Inzvestor
Thanks to those of you who turned out today for the OMMG meetup. It was a pleasure to meet with you and learn more about your businesses and to discuss ways that blogs can benefit your sites.
I hope to hear from several of you over the coming weeks.
Inzvestor
The weather was pants today, blustery and cold, and I was in the ideal spot to enjoy a stroll had the weather been a little more spring-like.
I spent the day in Lewes (near Brighton) and caught glimpses of the sea and the rugged coastline, however, sadly I was in a room training people for the best part of the day.
The drive back was a nightmare, stuck on the M25 carpark from the time I joined at Redhill (clockwise) until after the M40 turnoff - well over 2 hours later.
Inzvestor
The Year of the Pig starts tomorrow and we have just returned from a trip to Oriental City for a spot of new years eve celebrations, a nice meal and a spot of shopping too.
We’re celebrating in our own little way tomorrow and will be having a chinese dinner, complete with fortune cookies and chinese beer.
Inzvestor
This week we have had a couple of days of snow, with a good 4 inches piled up on the car.
To rub in the great weather mum’s been having on the other side of the world she sent me this pic, taken on her terrace.
Summer in NZ - one of the hottest days so far.
Inzvestor