01/03/2016 Another chilly day, French scrabble this afternoon.

Maximum temperature 10C, minimum -2C. 54 km/h SW winds. A light shower this evening nothing to measure.

Our salt and pepper pots.

Thai curry pumpkin soup for lunch to warm us up.

Love this kalanchoe it is looking better every day.

Cows en route to scrabble.

One of the few tractor drivers that bothers to move over.

Grey skies and a gorse bush on the right.

A tractor in the distance spreading liquid manure.

St Adjutory.

Scrabble....

This was my board, bad enough in English but even worse in French!!!

Sunset.

14/01/2016 Not a very good photo day! Soup making this morning and glued to the TV this afternoon!

Maximum 10C, minimum 3C.  40 km/h NW winds. 4mm rain.

Still have a few pumpkins left after today, the large one top left is 6kg!

This one, once de-pipped, and skinned was still 4 kg.

Chopped up and ready for roasting till tender.

Then it went in the saucepan with chopped onion, ginger and lemon grass plus coconut milk and stock, not forgetting the Thai red curry paste...

blended with a couple of chillies and ready to serve.  A lot going in the freezer as well.

Yum yum, roasted pumpkin seeds.

Watching the magic of Ronnie O'Sullivan this afternoon.  Brilliant.

20/11/2015 Happy Birthday to my Sister-in-law in Australia. Horrible day here wet and very windy.

Maximum temperature 18C,  minimum 11C.  78 km/h W wind gusts. 4 mm of rain overnight and still raining as I type this.

We lit the fire for the first time this year yesterday.

Lunch - home-made bread.....

and Thai Curry Pumpkin Soup. Home-grown pumpkins of course.

Great tit surveying the world in a break in the rain. This, and all following photos taken through wet glass so not very sharp. 

Sparrow bathing in the rain...

as the above with heavier rain.

Great tit rummaging in the wet leaves looking for insects.....

As above,

18/11/2015 Spending some time with me in the kitchen!

Maximum temperature 16C, minimum 12C.  33 km.h SW wind.  7.5 mm of rain.

Pumpkin (in fact there was two of them) heading for pumpkin soup. 

Roasted ready to add to other ingredients. Thai Pumpkin Soup.

Sorry forgot a photo of the soup at the end! It is delicious.

Pumpkin pips ready for roasting - we eat them before I thought about a photo after roasting!  Spiced with cumin and pimento.Yum yum.

Delia's 'Poor Man's Cassoulet' with a little tweaking from me!

Ready to go in the oven.

When I went to get fresh thyme I heard a buzzing and here is the culprit....

A little closer to the bumblebee.  Think this may be the last one around, winter is arriving at the weekend.

09/11/2015 Busy in the kitchen, only a few photos today.

Maximum temperature 21C, minimum 9C.   18 km/h W wind. Dry.

The first flower out on the Christmas cactus.

Berries on the holly.

Mrs sparrow struggling to open a sunflower seed...

Mr Sparrow getting a drink.

Dove.

Fruit cake for the birthday husband tomorrow, looks a bit one sided!

 Thai Pumpkin Soup.

23/02/2015 Shopping early in the rain so no photos. Managed a quick walk in the garden between showers. Not very interesting!

Maximum temperature 11C, minimum 6C. 7mm of rain measured this morning but it has been raining most of the day on and off.

05/12/2014 Very cold again and today, I did not put my nose out the door!! N fed the birds while I stayed snug inside. All photos of birds through the window.

Maximum temperature 5C. 1 mm rain.  It is going to be up to 11C next week so the forecast says :-)