Sunshine

It´s a nice bright day, blue sky but a little chilly. A little bit of sunshine makes all the difference.

Managed to sow some seeds, chives, okra, cilantro, toms and take some mint cuttings.

We need to get some more potting compost and lemon tree feed before we can proceed with too much more, but it feels good to have a least started.

A couple of months ago we had an unexpected visitor who decided to stay, she just walked into the courtyard and made her presence known, settled herself in and made herself at home. She was only about 5 months old and quite tiny. She has just finished her first calling, our boys (who have all been fixed) were quite upset they couldn´t help her. So today Tiggywinkle (hubby named her)  has gone to the vets, poor little thing, never been in a car before and got car sick so disgraced herself. We lost our Felix a few weeks ago, he was only 3, so we are still on 9 furries.

I´m sure there must be invisible signs along the road, pointing the way to the mad cat people, lol

A few months ago I found a lovely fun pattern for a boys jacket with dinosaur spines running along the hood and back, it was quite fitting for Theo who has a little theme running in his bedroom of dinosaurs and of course the ones I had already made him. It was a little large for him at the time and Rebecca used it as a coat jacket over other tops. It suits him and looks super cute.

I´m knitting the same pattern again at the moment, only this one will have a collar instead of a hood. Then I had a request for another jumper, so that´s on the go too.

Our next door neighbour returned to Berlin the other day, but insisted we help ourselves to the lemons from his tree.

The aroma of freshly picked lemons was quite heady, but they are sweet with good skins ideal for grating. I use quite a lot of lemons and zest, I made up garlic, lemon juice, honey and olive oil for roasting veggies including brussels sprouts, then use the zest for a little zing.

Yesterday I tried a new recipe, Mung bean curry, combining the spices from scratch rather than paste. I used it as a side dish, it was rather yummy. Usually I just sprout the mung beans, so this was a great idea for something different. No presoaking or boiling and they cooked quite quickly. Ideal for vegetarians too.

I thought I had better clarify my last post, reading it back it implied we had taken off on a recent jolly, not that the trip was 5 years old now. In fact we haven´t been anywhere apart from the odd supermarket trip and to collect our mail from the correos.

take care 

xcx