Had lovely time with family
menu added by request
starter: honeydew and cantaloupe melons with pomegranate. main: chestnut and red wine pate encroute – a Rose Elliot recipe from Vegan Feasts; fennel and carrot in white sauce (mustard, tahini, stock cube in mix); roast potatoes; sprouts; sage, rosemary and onion stuffing; redwood offcut sausages with their cheatin rashers wrapped round; bisto gravy… pud: trifles – veggie jelly over sherry soaked sponge cake, custard layer, cremovita topped with carnival sprinkles finish: hotel chocolat log, raw sweets (blended dried apricots, raisins and brazils with raw carob powder, etherium gold and suma) and fresh strawberries… all accompanied by wines, champagne and shlower non-alcoholic bucks fizz
Playing with new toy this morning, it may be bigger pixels and pink but I think my old Nikon is better… maybe I just have to learn to use it properly of course
some of it’s efforts this morning:
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as 
a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
