I went out for an afternoon walk today hoping to get some shots of autumnal trees.
I was a bit late though and the light was fading too much.
But these shots of the leaves that had alreday fallen appealed.
The leaves seem to be coming down quickly this year, plenty of those still on the trees are still green but the golden ones are coming off fast in the wind.
Tomorrow I might head out to Epping Forest to see how that’s looking.
I liked my rosehip vodka from 2009 so much I wanted to make some more.
But when I went out to collect hips I was only able to get a small handful.
So I’ve paired them with a Kidd’s Orange Red apple I had left.
I’m hoping it makes for a good combination.
PS: For my general fruit voddy method see this post here
This was my grandparents coffee pot.
I keep it on the mantlepiece in my dining room.
I like the combination of the dark wood, the pink wall, the silvery pot.
I’m not sure I’ve ever used it for coffee, I doubt I will.
At this time of day I tend to get a bit peckish…
Lunch is a distant memory and in this house we tend to eat late, so dinner/supper is a few hours away still.
And so, often I turn to my tub of Munchy Seeds Chilli Mix
Conveniently located on my desk within easy reach.
There’s a problem though.
They are really nice.
AND REALLY HOT.
So after a few dips in the tub my mouth is on fire.
Yet I never learn. I make the same mistake everytime.
I bet they’d be a great bar snack to get people to buy another drink, or two.
Apparently its going to mostly rain this weekend.
I’m not sure that will be entirely true on the Suffolk coast. It’s always just that little bit drier.
I hope the skies will be like they were last Sunday.
Mostly empty. Mostly blue.
The thing that looks like dust on the lens is a teeny plane. Promise.
Grrr because…
I’m mostly not a breakfast cereals person.
I used to be. I used to LOVE Weetabix with the top of the milk on.
You don’t get ‘top of the milk’ so much any more, most milk has been homogenised.
And anyway I like milk much less than I used to.
So mostly I have toast. Or bacon butties (my favourite). Or cheese.
Or something that’s not cereal.
But somewhere between last November and now I’ve developed a bit of and addiction to granola-y things.
Its stared with Jordan’s who invited me to a baking day I couldn’t attend, so they sent me some Country Crisp instead.
Then Rude Health sent me some of their newly launched ‘The Granola’.
Here I found out the secret of why all granola is tasty.
Then Lynne of a Greedy Piglet let me have some of her homemade.
And now I’m sort of addicted.
Not enough to make my own.
Not enough to make me switch form a bacon butty.
And I’ll have you know my waistline will thank me for that.
Because the shocking truth is that granola is tasty because its packed with fat (go on read the label). Possibly more fat than in a bacon butty :0
A grand stone staircase awaiting restoration….
I visited Copped Hall near Epping a couple of weeks ago.
I loved it.
Part of its fascination is that you don’t often get to see inside a grand house that’s in the process of being restored. Those parts are usually hidden away.
Not at Copped Hall.
Wherever possible they seem to have decided that the rooms should be on view so that visitors can see the progress.
This makes for such a different experience and also makes you realise the tremendous work involved in restoring a period property that has fallen into disrepair.
As I’ve already said here I’d highly recommend it.
