1 After choir, I was catching a quiet moment by the side of the river when I saw a fat, gingery looking bird with enormous webbed feet perched on a rusty buoy. Though it had something of the Cormorant about it, I didn’t really recognise it and only discovered that it was a very young Cormorant when I checked it online.
Bird life on the Penryn River
Very fat young cormorant
2 There are times when only comfort food will do! My CF of choice this lunchtime was Semolina with Jam, proper nursery food and made in a moment and with Strawberry Freezer Jam at the ready in the freezer. I was enchanted by the ice-crystals on the jam so had to wait to have my pudding until I had taken this photo!
Ice crystals on my strawberry freezer jam
Semolina with a dollop of Strawberry Freezer Jam
3 Our Christmas present arrived form America this afternoon having had some contretemps with the Customs Office for some unfathomable reason. It is a beautiful bread basket with a clay insert which you heat in the oven and then it keeps the bread warm as long as necessary. It is both beautiful and useful thus satisfying the words of William Morris –
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”.
Beautiful bread basket with clay warmer
