A fulfilling day spent in brilliant Spring sunshine today - got to make the most of the weather when it is so up and down!
First a drive out to the violin repairer in the country, which was utterly refreshing and so great to remember actually how close the country is to the city...
...picking up a dead possum off the side of the road (fresh and relatively tidily slipped into a bag, not smelling at all!) as a bonus for our hen run composting - great blood and bone to add to the mix...
...a library visit, replenishing the various genre of books it feels good to have about...
...an almost never lunch of spelt pikelets and cups of tea and reading said books in a lingering fashion at the dining table...
...and then four glorious hours in the garden in magnificent sunshine - YES!!!
Finally the borage or starflower is blooming - out of their spiky bud cases and hanging ethereally under the apricot tree.
I always love to find out what uses plants have, other than what seems obvious to me. In the case of borage, it is used in the kitchen in other countries - boiled and then sauteed with garlic as a vegetable in the Aragon and Navarra regions of Spain, as a green sauce in Germany and as the traditional ravioli pasta filling in Liguria in Italy - wonderful, and when I'm feeling a little more brave, I may just try that too...borage for courage, they say...!!
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