This photo came my way, taken at Glastonbury over the weekend.
I baked more Pressed Flower Biscuits toad and showed our lovely neighbour the Almanac in which I had found the recipe. She reminded me of the Book of Days from centuries ago that had the same quirky information.
I inherited a Book of Days, in two enormous volumes and dated 1869 and had forgotten how charming it was to dip into. Here is a an extract from June 28th.
I love how every detail of the treatment of the wool and the subsequent fabric are described and how the bet was won – and what a huge sum of money the bet was!
The seed heads of the Nelly Moser clematis are like spun gold in the morning sunshine.
I’m loving picking fresh lettuce almost every day, organic and full of goodness. Here it is in the salad spinner.
I’ve almost finished the baby blanket I showed you a few days ago, just lots of ends to be sewn in…….Next one is on the way and all using up what’s already in my stash!
A young magpie rested on Fledgling’s upturned beak and I just managed to get a photo on a long zoom from the kitchen before it flew off.
This lovely rose is in our garden. I didn’t know what all the colours in Pride flags stood for so was pleased to come across this chart along with lots of rainbow recipes, all to mark Pride Month..
Just before I took this photo, there were six bullfinches including two females at the feeders. What lovely colours they are.
Our sweetpeas are fabulous and share their scent all over the house.
There is a beautiful golden glow over the back garden as I write this tonight.
You may remember, Dear Reader, that I wrote about Cornish Hurling at the end of last month. You can see the post by clicking here. My letter was published in The Guardian yesterday!
We have a delightful little book. Every month has information about the moon and the tides, bird of the month, what to plant and what to harvest , a recipe and a folk song for the month. It is really lovely. I looked ahead to July and found a recipe for Flower Biscuits..
So, I made some! They are a bit shortbready and have the edible flowers pressed into the biscuit before baking and a lemony glaze when they come out of the oven.
I planted up a tub with purple, white and petunias this afternoon once it was cool enough to work outside.
I heard today that our local hospital is again, after covid, collecting traffic light hats and bonding squares for new-borns so I delivered them to my knitting shop, the collection point.
I was in need of inspiration some weeks ago and read about crocheting to help victims of domestic abuse. “Can you crochet in June for Refuge? Changing a life starts with one small step. Take up the challenge and raise vital life saving funds for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.” The challenge is to crochet every day in June, sell, raffle or otherwise donate to raise funds so every evening I have been making granny squares. Here are the first set, ready to be joined and have a border added to make a pram blanket. .
Yesterday we bought some petunias for a front door pot to complement our Suffragette garden but it has been much too hot to plant today.