Here's one I visited earlier...........

Hurragh! I picked my first sweet peas today!

This got me ruminating over how much I miss Alys!

The Edible Garden was so lovely, a Wednesday evening treat I shall miss greatly.

This in turn sent me off another train of thought ~ my other favourite gardener

Sarah Raven.

Oh but I never did get around to showing you the pictures of this year's visit

so here is my postcard from Perch Hill, Spring 2010

That pewter jug!

As you can tell I am trying not to speak as the pictures speak for themselves

but oh my pie! LUNCH!

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I simply love this wonderful scrubbed pine dresser covering the whole wall with it's row of jewel coloured Morrocan bowls

passed these lovely girls on our way out, bye for now Henny Penny and friends

Postcard from Pashley Manor

coming soon...........

Love Sarah

xXx

Marmalade

January may be a slow, cold month but it does have one brilliant, sunny saving grace.... it is Seville orange season! I love the annual rythm that comes with kitchen rituals and for me January is all about making marmalade. I adore the bitterness of seville oranges, I like my marmalade tangy and the colour of glowing amber.

Japanese woodblock by Yoshiko Yamamoto

Just seeing the oranges in the markets, at the greengrocers' fills me with a promise of warm summer sunshine, still far away..........

So here is my bowl of Sevilles, lets get started!

I use Delia's recipe from "How to Cook 2" it has never failed me~ now whilst that is bubbling away for the next couple of hours what shall we do?

I should really deal with the post on the kitchen table, or crack on with that pile of ironing...yawn!

Actually I think I will show you the bowl that the oranges were in as I love it and I thought you might like a closer look too! It came from MIL and is a real favourite of mine.

Oh and I am really enjoying these tulips, I love it when they are almost over and they reveal their centres, hmm I spy the current edition of you know what! well perhaps just 5 minutes?

Much later

Yum, yum......sunshine on toast!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend?

Sarah x