Category: Andy Roberts

Manmade Eden – a history of Orchards

‘Manmade Eden’, a history of orchards
The West Country is famed for its orchards, but why are they here? As
the campaign to save and celebrate English orchards gathers momentum,
this book explores their fascinating and – until now – neglected
history. Why is Glastonbury known as Avalon, the Isle of Apples? What
made Redstreak Cyder the most popular drink of the seventeenth
century? Who was Dr Ashmead, cultivator of the connoisseur’s favourite
apple, Ashmead’s Kernel? How did a Somerset vicar come to make cider
for Queen Victoria?This rich, wide-ranging book takes a long historic
look at changing fashions and fortunes – asking why thirteenth-century
monks and Edwardian landowners planted orchards, and why post-war
governments paid farmers to destroy them. The author argues that Apple
Day (October 21) should be made our national autumn holiday. He
examines the role of Common Ground, the National Trust and other
organisations in preserving and restoring orchards, and asks: what can
we do to make our orchards as profitable as they were in centuries
past?

Andy Roberts – Building a log pile

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Building a log pile

I started building a small log pile a couple of years ago in order to add to the environmental diversity in my back garden. There were only a few pieces of wood though, left over from some grubbing out and thinning. Then there was the incident with the dangerously overgrown eucalyptus tree which had to be taken down or severely pollarded. When the tree surgeons came to do the job I told them to leave me the logs, so this is what I had as my raw material to build my substantial log pile with.

The rest of this story can be told largely in pictures, I think. Unless there are any questions.

One More cup of Coffee Bob Dylan song on Andy Roberts Youtube

Getting more views on youTube than Andy Roberts own songs at present
is a cover of Bob Dylan’s song from the Desire album – One More cup of
Coffee for the road.

http://www.youtube.com/v/mSvpI9_2IPk


…to the Valley below

Is it worth recording covers like Bob Dylan songs or should I be
concentrating more on my own stuff really?

Andy Roberts – Mozambique – Havering Folk Club

Andy Roberts – Mozambique


Andy Roberts sings Mozambique at Havering Folk club from an evening back in September last year.

Havering Folk Club

Havering Folk Club meets every Wednesday at 8.00pm in a pub called the Golden Lion in Romford, Essex. For more details visit the official Havering Folk Club website