A yoghurt cake today (weekend guests left two unused cartons of same) – the recipe says the cake should be made with blueberries but I used our fat, glossy blackcurrants instead. Why not?

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The bridegroom and friend

Then lunch with our grandkids and friends

Playing at the farm WITH a toy farm!

A new recipe for artichokes but a bit fiddly for me.

A cabbage in peanut and cheese sauce and pea and potato salad

The first broad beans of the season

A colourful dessert – gooseberry, blackcurrant, rhubarb and strawberry crumble (cream is in the fridge). Bon appetit.

The geese must have found this fox cub eating their food and attacked him. He wasn’t there at 7 am when I fed the geese but Jeremy just called me to see him. A beautiful creature but one that would have grown up to attack our chickens and ducks. Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Even the cats don’t want to get their paws wet on the sodden ground.

Poppies smashed by the rain and lupins too. we want sun!