Not necessarily mysterious – it just sounds more interesting than ‘miscellaneous’.
While we were eating dinner, a fox came in through the kitchen and stood in the hall. I think it must have been looking at my nine-tailed fox spirit picture, but Katharine shooed it out before it could give a detailed opinion.
(The picture is actually one that looked in through the sliding doors several years ago. Probably Grandad to the current one.)
This is not sophisticated baking, but I think it’s going to taste all right…
We bought a mini peach tree this year (‘Crimson Bonfire’) to grow in a big pot, but were not led to expect any fruit in the first year. However, quite a few tiny peaches appeared. They were bullet hard and didn’t seem likely to amount to much, so we didn’t bother thinning them out. Today they all fell off spontaneously and turn out to be perfectly ripe – and rather nice, albeit smallish.
Made with my own hands. It doesn’t look that great (or very green), but it tastes all right!
I remember when I were a lad there was always a competition over who got the single greengage one out of the box of Lyons’ jam tarts. Those were bright green – probably carcinogenic if not actually radioactive…
I painted some little flower pots for Mum’s birthday (shh – it’s still a few days away!). Light sanding, coat of gesso and away we go. The artistry is not great, but it’s a few years since I gave her anything home-made for her birthday. (Don’t worry, I have got some other items!)
I made a couple of rough-hewn (rustic, let’s say) wooden planters for our bay trees, using planks from old pallets. As I explained to Katharine: what I’ve done here is take something that was basically a pile of scrap wood – and transformed it into two piles of scrap wood. Painted blue (Cuprinol forget-me-not).
A little refurbishment project. This garden bench was a nice present from our in-laws many years ago, but was showing its age. We took it apart, sanded down the cast iron, repainted with more colours to bring out the design, and fitted new slats. Like brand new (or better)!
A paper fish, made from one of the large collection of printable patterns on this Japanese National Research and Development Agency kids page (ahem). Some of them are pretty elaborate. They remind me of the cut-out animal heads they used to put on the back of cornflake packets many years ago. (Via Everlasting Blort)
A prize Katharine won at her knitting group. I think they would make attractive egg cosies if we ever ate boiled eggs.
Seen and Done 