@MerryMidwinter Thank you very much for linking. I chuckled at the juxtaposition of content and lighting, while also appreciating it.
@RainbowZebraWarrior Those are just magical! Interested to know if you have come across Aldi's Aperini and if so what you think.
I have to be boringly financially sensible and wait for wine to turn up, before considering going for it, but 'thank you bottles' of spirits are in abundance here.
I have a 'cooks nips' jar which is raisins, sultanas, glace cherries, and candied fruit, just covered in brandy or whisky into which any last dregs of any spirits from standing bottles upside down for 24 hours before washing, go. The years contents mainly go into the Christmas cake and pudding and it's always surprising how much there always is and how much it mounts up.
@StrungWithSilverBellsAndFlowers
"Funny how steeping things in alcohol increases their appeal……" This has been my excuse for years.
@Gettingannoyednow Peaceful breakfast. and blackberry gin both sound good.Thank you for the reminder of Louis Grimshaw.
@Shakeyourbaublesandsmile Thank you for introducing The Lost Cauldron, it looks like fun, but also the name sparked of some ideas...
@FiveGoMadInDorset That's stunning, I'd love to be there watching that sky.
@piscofrisco Sorry about Marrakesh, but it will come again, you wont regret seizing the moments with them whatever the outcome. Look forward to seeing your apricot brandy.
@IngenTing Apart from the sickness bug that sounds very atmospheric and a lovely place to be hunkering down.
@NowLightOneThousandChristmasLights I was also awake half the night, read and reread CC's 1st November, thinking about why do these flavors work together and what I could do with them. Hope you got some sleep in the end, or at least the pleasure of seeing a good dawn breaking.
Lot of work going on here trying to prepare soil mixes ready for winter. The robin is very happy about it all. Also it's now ridiculously cheap pumpkin season, so lots of thought about how to get the best out of them.
The contents of the carved one went into a chilli and vodka pumpkin pasta sauce for last night, and some pumpkin hummus for today, and the seeds put aside to be roasted in cinnamon, chilli, and salt with those from the inevitable annual influx about to happen.
I so wish I could have taken a picture for everyone of yesterday's weather.
I was driving down the motorway with autumnal trees rising on both sides in ridges up the fields, split by clumps of silver birches,and illuminated by low sunlight against a backdrop of dark slate blue grey skys and threatening storms.
Visually dramatic and felt like being within a Van Gogh painting.