ADDIT: Old old post for starters: I started this post a long time ago - a lot of random thoughts from the past month and am not sure what pictures are in it... so here's hoping they're nothing I'm going to regret.
1. In honour of my little sister blister piglet pie's birthday today here is a photo of
Leonie and a haycorn.
2. I wore the beanie Ooaah made me right across Devon - because we had neither hair straightener nor hair clips. Now I know why people turn to dreads. Well, why some people turn to dreads.
3. Breadcrumbs make food better.
But here's is a tasty fish that didn't need'm.
4. Is it wrong that I always read it as "scientists searching for Higgs' Bison in the Large Hadon Collider?" Keep searching for them bison, fellas! They'll a-turn up one day.
5. Leo came to visit all of a sudden on Saturday (the other day). We ate marvelous things made - like roast chook and berry crumble - and then stripped the chicken and made a delicious chicken pie. We walked three and a half miles almost to Rickling - the most sumptuous country walk in my time here - among hedgerows picking blackberries, along the old 17th century london road and all the time feeling quite sensationally at risk of highway men (if only!). She went home and it stopped being holidays any more.
leo consults our "map"
jessie ignores the public footpath signs
a wee old chapel-turned-barn
jessie looking rather fat and contemplative
leo: will there be highway men?
jessie: if only!
the original london road - for ye olde horse and cart (and legs of leonie)
the church tower you can almost see in the background is newport st mary's
a haycorn
blackberries on a sunny september morning
quite the bounty of nature and all that
my garden some months ago when arriving home from france
my garden after a bit of a trim
pie before baking