First lettuce and first new potatoes from the greenhouse lifted yesterday . delicious just boiled with a knob of butter and a side salad with the lettuce

Saw Invincible Spirit At the Irish nation stud last week beautiful

Invincible Spirit 1

Invincible Spirit 2

Invincible Spirit 3

Beautiful rump steak from local
farm grass fedWelsh Black Cattle

Home made Irish Soda Bread 

My birthday cake Chocolate with
Raspberry and Loganberries
and fresh cream

My latest watercolour Painting

My latest painting ,although I mainly paint botanical paintings I sometime do animals and birds for friends and family

My latest painting

The walk April 10th

After the awful weather experienced by the rest of the country we gladly did not have  any snow ,The Anglesey fields were snow free while the mountains on the mainland were thick with snow

The Snowdon mountain range viewed from my home

The warmer weather over the last few days has brought  a few dandelions into bloom ,I really feel spring has arrived when they bloom on mass the  also starting to fly this may even be one from my hives

Honey bee on Dandelion

There are hundreds of Lesser Celandine flowering at the sides of the road that makes up our walk their shining yellow flowers not unlike buttercups

Lesser Celandine

Despite the hard winter we have had there are still plenty of berries on the ivy ,They mustn't have been to the birds liking. I suppose they will just fall off and germinate and grow into even more ivy 

Ivy Berries

The walk along the railway path was particularly beautiful today now every thing has dried out and a lovely blue sky and its always mine and Flossies alone we never see another soul .

The Railway Path

What made  the walk along the path in the warm spring sunshine today was the delicious perfume from the Gorse flowers that are now covering the bushes.The perfume is of a flower coconut really heady.

Gorse bushes in bloom

Even the trees now are just about to burst into leaf this hawthorn against the bright blue of the sky was so beautiful

Hawthorn just about ready to come into leaf

Lemon Curd

Hens laying loads of eggs trying to think of ideas yo use them  up todays solution was lemon curd ,but thats only used a dozen . I need to think of what to make to use the dozen i will get tomorrow
RECIPE LEMON CURD
12 eggs
1lb best butter
8 lemons juice and zest 
2lb demerera Sugar 

My painting of Juvenile owls

This is my latest painting which I painted for a friend ,I usually paint botanical subjects and this was totally new for me to paint birds as I had not painted anything for over a year it was a double challenge .I collected it from the framer this afternoon I think he made a really good job of it

Every year I plant Daffodils and Tulips in the greenhouse to cheer me up in the dark days of winter and I have certainly neede them this year with all the miserable wet weather .The Daffodils are just going over and the Tulips are just starting.They do your heart good when the sun is shining and the whole green house is filled with their lovely perfume

The Daily Walk

This is the walk Flossie and I try to do each day its 2 ½ miles in total. It is beautiful and ever changing,   . 

 Part of it is the railway path that is along side the London to Holyhead railway line . T

. The remainder is just the Road to Bodorgan Station 

This is the stream that fed the old Mill race sadly the mill is now a ruin it was onceof the many mills that supplied flour for mainland Wales when Anglesey was called the bread basket of Wales

There is always something interesting to see. Be it wild geese grazing or the new lambs like  this particular family of three baby lambs and mum  or a buzzard resting in a tree always something new

Good Food

I love good food especially what i have grown myself nothing nicer than straight from the garden to the table

Broad beans and tomatoes

Seed Potatoes

Eggs from my chickens

Part of the vegetable garden

Chocolate cake

Raspberries blackberries and loganberries

My Garden

My garden is the love of my life most of the 3/4 of an acre of garden has only been mine for 7 years   after 30 years I was able to purchase a strip of field this now 2/3 wild flower meadow  and the remaining 1/3 is divided into ornamental garden  ,vegetable garden  fruit garden .and space for keeping hens .

My little girl Peggy

Flossie my big Girl

Here for a start  are a two of my loves My dogs Peggy and Flossie 


Peggys is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and is 10 years old  Peggy is every ones friend and loves a fuss 





Flossie is a Japanese Akita and is 4 and a half years old . weighing in at well over 100 lbs
She is a real big girl  but a real sweetie who loves her family but is not fussy on strangers ,After you have sat down and shared a cup of tea with the family she is then  prepared  to become your friend

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