This weekend has been filled of delicious food, gin and tonic's with cucumber, shed painting and sewing for beginner's...
Mum gave me her Grannie's sewing machine - so this is the oldest treasure and I am certainly going to learn to sew now
Painting the garden shed undercoat....project
Tom's been making mini bruschetta's -
Guilty pleasure homemade ottolenghi cheesecake- weekend treat after cleaning out the pond last week with a cup of tea....! We picked the little alpine strawberries from our garden too!
Today we made elderflower cordial in the garden in a big pan, firstly we picked the elderfowers from the garden then boiled a huge pan of water,sliced up some lemons,citric acid and sugar, it rests over night then we strain it through some cheese cloth and bottle it up!!!
This royal celebration began with making cucumber sandwiches and heading down to Pilton to Matt and Ollie's to watch the ceremony
On the way back to bath we stopped off in the wood on Manor Farm, where we may be keeping the Shepherd's hut - to see the bluebell's..
and had to jump over stream's...
Then make a wish.....................and home for home-made Pimm's and an afternoon nap
Making homemade pasta in the garden on a sunday day...
Foraging for ingrediants - was another thing! Stinging nettles and borage, suprisingly delish!
Ricotta filling
Tagliatelle making
and drying
These lily of the valley were identical to my bouquet for my wedding last year - I picked these from our garden,they smell gorgeous, like the smell of fresh sheets on the bed.. The flowers are little bell shapes, they grow wild at the top of our garden - i think they like the shade, and completely cover the ground with their big leaves so it's great not to have to dig the garden when they are in season, which is just once a year..
I also picked a selection of other pretty flowers from the garden that I'm not familiar with, but cut and arranged in old tins and jam jars looked so spring like to decorate the table for Easter
And the table underneath Richard's old sail from his boat to keep us in the shade
Tom made some steps out of rusty old floor boards and off cuts of wood
Our set of wheels to the shepherds hut!
My working zone
Wood charred bacon and egg roll ups for breakfast
Tom doing the finishing touches to the bed, that's recycled from old futon slats.. This isn't any old bed, its called a "rock'n'roll bed, you pull the back rope and it converts into a sofa/bench for daytime and reading
