Sunday saw Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune align, so much sky gazing and today is the rising Worm moon or first spring moon, which for us signals urgency to cook up the last of any unpreserved vegetables and fruit laid down last year.
Knowing finances would be awfully thin this year I doubled the usual efforts and we've done well but it brings with it more work now.
As we're on a bit of a frugality drive, actually ended up initially making up two base mezes for the week, out of preserved tomatoes and peppers, and an attempt at a pepper hummus without chick peas for a legume intolerant visitor. (Consistency isn't right if anyone has any ideas other than more tahini, or cornflour...)
Then some chestnut flour based tofu and mushroom wraps with pepper meze, and preserved tomatoes, and two big bread and butter puddings with last weeks left over chestnut flour bread.
Mushrooms where gathered and the tofu made out of 20p due date milk, so main costs where tahini and sultanas. So off a good start, but if enough time hope to later make a batch of red cabbage and apple in pomegranate molasses.
Finally replaced a torn section of skirt (wheelchair eats them) and time consuming but rescued two garments that I spilled wax all over making candles.
Have started making a heavy duty apron out of various black denim jeans repair material lying around, in the hope of doing a little less damage to my clothes. Feeling vaguely virtuous instead of just plain broke!
Yesterday brought a little flock of Great Tits accompanied by two very tuneful yellow hammers who hopped around for some time singing beautifully.
But this morning was a rude early awakening by a flock of noisy gulls wheeling around high and low, that have hung around, and the small birds have only just started to raise their voices..
Embarking on next three days of trying to provide workshops on a very thin frayed shoestring and hope it results in finding funding.
@RainbowZebraWarrior thanks for the seeds heads up, (all info you might have appreciated) might try my luck if passing a Lidle.
@piscofrisco Any mileage in rainy day fleece felting? Have been idly wondering about this after realizing many here only know wool as balls of acrylic...
@CrushingOnRubies Well done, glad it was fun. (though now have an operatic "Carpe Dium, Carpe Dium" earworm)
@DameProfessorIDareSay Thank you for the article, enjoyable read.