I’ve really been enjoying following Anna Greenland’s blog and IGTV over the last month of lockdown. She makes vegetable gardening very accessible and has a very warm engaging style. I’ve been wanting to have a go at making ‘shrubs’ for a while but hadn’t quite got to grips with a good recipe.

A shrub is an old fashioned tonic, a sort of probiotic drinking vinegar. The description sounds a bit hideous I know, but I promise you it’s delicious and not really vinegary at all. Using a raw apple cider vinegar means you are getting all of that beneficial probiotic goodness.

While reading Anna’s blog, I found a recipe for rhubarb and ginger shrub and decided to give it a go. Rhubarb is just coming into its own in the veg patch and we are getting an additional bunch in our weekly veg box, so this is a great way to use up a glut.

Rather than typing out the recipe, I’m sharing with you a photo from my lockdown journal. If you subscribe to our newsletter you will have seen this is something that I started a couple of weeks ago when I joined the Slow Life Good Life Club.

I haven’t been religious about journaling every day as I am still working full time and managing homeschooling but when I’ve had the time, I’ve added a page and I’m not being precious about what goes in it. It’s purely for pleasure and may one day be something my grandchildren look at when they are studying this period in history! I will share some more pages with you over the coming weeks.