My next door neighbour keeps giving me wonderful courgettes from their allotment. And as I'm not eating many vegetables at the moment because of my dodgy gut I made her a courgette cake to say thank you. Based on Nigella Lawson's recipe - Flora's Famous Courgette Cake - I leave out the raisins and add lemon and lime zest instead and use a jar of lemon curd for the filling.
I also made jam for her out of the black currants she gave me. Supplemented by a box of them still in the freezer that Robin picked 2 years ago...or more probably. There wasn't quite enough to fill the last jar so I'll keep this one.
I sometimes get the Guardian free from Waitrose on a Saturday but I hardly ever get through it. I can't stomach the news at the moment.
First ripe apple on our tree.
The buddliea is nearly over. I've been picking it and filling a big brass jug of their curving stems for the kitchen table....depriving the butterflies but filling the air inside with its summer perfume.
I've been shopping today - buying things for my trip to Fiji with my sisters later next month. I keep buying mistakes though that I have to return....like suitcases. A pink one, a turquoise one.
The sales are on which I find curiously magnetic - encouraging me to think I need things I definitely don't.....but maybe I don't have to be sensible all the time.
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