I enjoy the flowers

A friend called in with his granddaughter this morning. I hadn’t seen her since she started high school and suddenly she’s a young woman and learning to drive! Being a teenager she didn’t want her photo on the blog but I snapped her grandad instead.

The plums are beginning to ripen outside and I looked for an Umeboshi recipe (Japanese style pickled plums). If all goes to plan the pickled plums (pickled in sea salt) will be ready to taste in about a fortnight.

The green pate is made with courgettes, onions and garlic with some ground almonds and seasoning.

The sautéed celery should have been eaten last night but I forgot that I had made the dish so we will eat it tonight.

A simple tomato salad with homegrown spring onions and basil

Have you heard the new word being used? It’s “goat” meaning greatest of all time. I heard it on the radio this morning and then this evening when the amazing Simone Biles won a gold medal at the Olympic Games

We moved the geese to the duck pond just now

That will drip overnight into the sieve

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The floor is covered with old feed sacks to protect the Lino from getting horribly sticky

We took a slow and short Wednesday walk around the Colmworth Country Park

Then we sat in the shade and talked about the riots in Southport, the killings in Bangladesh, the rigged election in Venezuela and the state of so called “democracy” around the world.

Then we walked back to our cars and acknowledged our good fortune to be surrounded by and comforted by nature. It could be a glorious and more equitable world – but I don’t believe our leaders (even those with good snd not self-serving intentions) can make this happen. Age has made me a grumpy, old cynic!