Aims of the blog

I have a great many interests and love learning new things. Many of the things I want to learn are skills that are becoming quaint and uncommon as modern technology and easy access to mass manufactured goods make many skills obsolete unless you take them up as a hobby. This can also make some things difficult to learn but the internet and youtube brings with it a whole lot of knowledge just waiting to be discovered.

In the past many of the skills I want to learn would have been passed down from generation to generation, like cooking, cleaning and gardening tips. I'm not talking about how to cook an egg or grow some flowers... I'm talking baking, canning and growing a whole heap of edible stuff!!

My aim is to slowly learn and relearn as many "old" skills as I can. I can be stubborn and resourceful when I set my mind to something so I'm going to make a great big list and see how many things I can work out how to do. I'm going to try all sorts of things from the mundane, like cooking and cleaning, to more whimsical skills like bee keeping!