over. I wouldn’t mind, but I taught him all I know and now the pupil has blown the teacher out of the water. He must surely realise exactly who he is dealing with? A formidable adversary...
Starters at dawn.
Of late I am all of a do-dah.
Knowing not whether I’m on this earth or Fuller’s Earth.
I did buy three superbly majestic limey green white foxgloves that stand sentinel over my path, garden and steps. They look magnificent even though they cost a fortune. My foxgloves I am growing from seed will be ready next year. Being a ‘now’...
I want it now sort of Elizabeth Bott personage could I wait?
Oh dear me NO!
I did convince myself not unreasonably that the money we are saving by not going anywhere would more than pay for some mortgage inducing foxgloves? Himself even helped by saying
‘Will they self-seed?’ I absolutely love plants that pop up in random spots in the garden. That comment saw my plastic shimmer through the air by the speed of light. Walking away peering through a huge hedge of herbaceous happening I felt for all the world like David Bellamy on speed. Added to which I was happy to be shopping local in Ludlow, No three day queues at garden centres for me.
Ellie in her favourite look-out spot.
This morning’s sourdough proved overnight in the fridge.
This is ‘his’ suggestion and I have tried before to prove overnight in the fridge without success.
My son and I are becoming sourdough tarts, all we can talk about is our latest arrival. We email photographs, fine tune the balance of ingredients tweaking as we go. I wouldn’t mind but...
it keeps disappearing...?
This is ‘his’ suggestion and I have tried before to prove overnight in the fridge without success.
My son and I are becoming sourdough tarts, all we can talk about is our latest arrival. We email photographs, fine tune the balance of ingredients tweaking as we go. I wouldn’t mind but...
it keeps disappearing...?
Bags I have a crust slice. What a fine-looking loaf. Talking of which - that photograph of the garden steps, etc is just wonderful. Ellie is gorgeous, but I am drooling over everything in the photograph, including the foxgloves. You have a great eye.
ReplyDeleteErr... the crust has already been disposed of!?!
DeleteElaine, you have known me long enough now to know I am style over substance... red hat, no drawers type of thing. So the setting the scene is far more important in my life than decontaminating stuff. As soon as I saw the foxgloves I knew exactly where they would go. Since coming to Ludlow it has been a while for me to get my ‘eye’ back in focus. It is coming slowly as I still have a yen for my lovely much missed cottage in Kent. Sad, I know!
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I am sure the other one is pretty good too, but you know what I mean!
ReplyDeleteTalking of eyes, at this late stage I am requiring reading glasses... how the mighty have fallen. Can’t blooming hear though!
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It must be good.....
ReplyDeleteWot? The bread? You forget you who you are talking to... not the sharpest tool in the pirate’s many and various sheds!?! Bet he didn’t even know I was there?
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I must proof read my replies before I fire them off!?!
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That image of your Garden and Stairs is Sublime, I'm Green with Envy, as we live in a Desert so I could never get that lush Secret Garden Look that is the stuff of Dreams. I bought some ready grown Herbs since I had not the patience for growing from Seed this year, they croaked before I got a sufficient Harvest from them to justify their expense... so much for that! They must have been grown in a Greenhouse and coming to my back covered Patio was just too much of a shock to their little Systems... poor things!
ReplyDeleteYes, it does have an element of secret garden to it. The view from the gate is lovely too. Last summer sitting up in the garden I spied someone taking a photograph of it. We are back from the road so it is beautifully secluded.
DeleteWere you harvesting the herbs too soon? That’s what I do, mint which usually takes over, I pick, hardly giving it a chance to get going. Your patio should be ideal, give the seeds another go, at least they don’t cost as much.
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I love foxglove and those are beautiful. So is the bread. I baked a loaf tonight. Not sourdough, though. I don't have a ridged casserole to bake it in.
ReplyDeleteSo do I Joanne, the purple one has self seeded in the rosemary bush. Hopefully these will do the same. Plants popping up to suit themselves is my kind of gardening, let’s face it they have a far better idea than us mere humans!
DeleteSourdough you can bake in a loaf tin or prove in a casserole dish lined with one of your lovely tea towels, floured so it doesn’t stick then turned out onto a baking tray. Making the starter is a faff, maybe a friend could give you some. Beware though it has a strangely addictive appeal, far more so than yeasted bread. The whole living thing has p o w e r! Oddly I personally feel honoured to be part of it. Who knows why?
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Your garden looks fabulous. My kind of garden! I have foxgloves all over the place and I love it. I've just planted some seeds too of apricot ones so if the birds don't eat them first they will hopefully be glorious next year! Your bread looks exceptionally good. By jove I think she's got it!! xx
ReplyDeleteYes MG it is slowly becoming my garden. When we moved here it was the garden of a garden designer, it was too stage managed, I just love the rough and tumble of a natural insect friendly garden and that is what it is slowly becoming.
DeleteFoxgloves and Poppies are my favourites. My grandchildren call me Poppy at my request, as in my world I am far too young to be called Grandma so I chose Poppy. Says a lot I think you’ll agree!?!
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My first ever foxgloves are just coming into flower. I was given the tiny plants by Steve Reed..not sure if you read him ( shadowsteve.blogspot.com)He came on the train from London to bring them to me. I nurtured them and they are now all 8 of them looking beautiful against an old wall. I am hoping that they will self seed for next year. I love the photo of your steps, and would like to see more of your garden please! I can't quite make out the object that is just by the top of the yellow foxglove......is it an elephant?
ReplyDeleteYes it is an elephant, I had a ‘friend’ (questionable?) who collected them, I bought it for her, got it home and could bear to part with it! That is my trouble I lumber all friends with things I love, in my world it doesn’t matter whether they do too... what a flaming madam!
DeleteWhat a lovely gesture from Steve... just off to read him now..........
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