A bit of baking with the littlest boy, who had a couple of days off school this week with a temperature. When he felt better we made some focaccia. The light was too dim (sunset 4.30pm today!) to photograph the finished object. It was nice and strangely crumpetty.
I had a nice surprise in the post on Friday, a lovely package from Jane at Flowerhouse who had a giveaway to celebrate her first blog birthday. As well as the beautiful fabric she sent tea and seeds. I was very happy. The tomatoes are ones I particularly wanted to grow next year, I've heard good things about them. Thanks Jane!
I spent this afternoon walking the middle boy to and from the Remembrance Day parade. The weather was glorious. The church was packed, so I didn't stay, but on my way back to collect him I had a wander down to look at the castle. A moment for reflection.
Lovely pics! The focacia sounds delicious :) Hope your son is feeling better now. The giveaway looks wonderful too :)
ReplyDeleteI have never made focaccia but I think I should. Yours looks delicious - even uncooked. I hope your littlest is better? It is this time of year when everyone is a bit more susceptible to illness. Have a wonderful week CJ. x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos - just look at that blue sky over the church! The focaccia looks yummy - I was trying to identify the toppings, is it rosemary and garlic? It's been a while since I made any but your picture makes me want to get the flour out! Hope your son is feeling better now and that you have a lovely, healthy week. x
ReplyDeleteThe weather certainly looks wonderful. As does the focaccia. I rarely make bread, because I tend to binge eat it. Yours looks lovely thougg.
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I read your posts often but haven't commented before. Today's post and photos touched my soul. Thank you for sharing your delightful and calming photos.
ReplyDeleteHello CJ, I make focaccia a lot and freeze it in chunks....quick snack!! Love your prize, I was the lucky winner of the wool :) What is your plan for the fabric? x
ReplyDeleteglad the little one is feeling better. We did Remembrance Day with scouts today too, although just the service and not the parade.
ReplyDeleteHope you're all well now. The focaccia dough looks good, studded with rosemary... and is that garlic?
ReplyDeletewe love the idea of rosemary in the foacaccia!! it looks and sounds delicious!
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Hope little one is feeling better soon.
ReplyDeleteWow, now I have a desire to make focaccia! I adore your castle. We visited a mansion yesterday, will post in the morning. What a fab collection of gifts she sent you! Lucky!! ((hugs)), Teresa :-)
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful photos from your week dear friend.....they tell a story all their own! And how wonderful to receive such a lovely package in the mail full of all of those goodies! Glad your little guy is feeling better....I need to get that recipe from you! Glad you had some time to reflect. Wishing you an outstanding week! Nicole xo
ReplyDeleteMmm, that salad looks good and I love a slab of warm focaccia! There's something so soothing about baking, isn't there? A good post-illness activity. I hope that everyone is better now and that any lurgies don't start doing the rounds! It's a lovely feeling to be the lucky winner of something, congratulations! I'm now wondering what you'll make with that fabric and wishing my maskotka toms looked like those on the seed packet - mine were very tall and those look a bit bushy!
ReplyDeleteI love the word crumpetty!! What a lovely parcel of things from Jane, she is so lovely isn't she! xx
ReplyDeleteLovely giveaway goodies from Jane, lucky you! Such a great mix of goodies.
ReplyDeleteThe focaccia sounds and looks good, hope your son is feeling better now.
Must have been very moving to have seen the parade and what it stands for. Your photos are lovely.
Have a good week CJ.
Gill xx
What a lovely package you received in the post. As you know, I grew Maskotka for the first time this year and they're definitely on my must grow again list for next year so I don't think you'll be disappointed with them. It was a beautiful, mild day here yesterday too, just the weather for all the remembrance services and parades.
ReplyDeleteGlad you boy is feeling better now. That looks like such a lovely giveaway parcel - full of wonderful things!
ReplyDeleteWishing you a great week. xx
Such a lovely week even with a little one home with a fever. Love your photos. Have a wonderful day,
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Glad your boy is feeling better now. They go down so quickly but are back up soon too! Lovely photos again CJ. Plus that bread looks fab!
ReplyDeleteFocaccia crumpets! Yum! Glad your son is feeling better. It's that time of year for colds and things starting up I think
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A enjoyable post, and lovely photos. Flighty xx
ReplyDeleteA lovely giveaway and good to see your littlest one baking - it should be a compulsory National Curriculum subject - after all what is more important - feeding yourself or knowing the order of the planets?
ReplyDeleteThe foccacia looks like it was going to be good! Love the country lane shot with the stone wall - we don't have things like that here. You are lucky to be surrounded by so much history.
ReplyDeleteI love to make focaccia, the best part is stabbing it all over with your fingers. I love reading about your time with the boys, they seem like such active, interesting kids. Beautiful photos of where you live, I really hope to see it all in person someday. Your photos are a great bridge for me.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely giveaway to have received, CJ. I've never made focaccia bread but I want to now! I hope littlest boy is better and back to school. Beautiful photos xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful present to receive in the mail! Moments of reflection paired with freshly baked bread sounds like a wonderful way to spend the days:) Hope you're having another lovely day!
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely post. i feel completely refreshed seeing your lovely gift and beautiful shots of the castle - what a lovely part of the world you live in. thank you so much CJ for sharing with us who live half a world away and in the suburbs xx
ReplyDeleteI love the photos in your post, I know I've said it before, but sometimes it just leaves a dreamy feeling that is so pleasant to come and visit. I hope the littlest one is feeling better. I have a tendency to a little baking on under the weather days too.
ReplyDeleteI love making focaccia, I think it's the lovely sticky dough! Hope your boy is feeling better. Have a good week xx
ReplyDeleteThose salad leaves look excellent for November. I might have to try making a pumpkin pie this week.
ReplyDeleteLove focaccia. We su around with ours and no two ever turn out the same. You can add all sorts of different toppings. Never thought to call it crumpetty. Great word. Might use it myself :)
ReplyDeleteCrumpetty - I love newly invented words like that! Although I comment as Scriptor and my name is John some of my family know me as CJ - it seemed very strange to see my initials on a comment on Long May She Rain. :-)
ReplyDeleteLovely photos! So very English :) I love the word "Crumpetty". I am originally from the UK and my husband misses crumpets so much!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great giveaway to win! Your photos are really lovely.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like still-warm, freshly-baked bread is there? And I know what you mean about indoor photography at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteI read a useful post about taking things outside and photographing them when the light's poor but I'm staying put and keeping warm!
S x
I love the moodiness of your weather. I'm listening to The Hound of the Baskervilles on "tape" (iTunes) right now with Scott and I'm loving the setting. This may be a silly question, but it has me wondering where "the moors" are in relation to you?
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness that castle. I would take so many photos of that thing my camera would break! Looks like a lovely week!
ReplyDeleteIt's so picturesque where you live, just gorgeous. I've never made focaccia. I have a feeling if I did I'd just eat it all! x
ReplyDeleteGreetings from the wilds of the interior of British Columbia! It was the photo of the scouts on parade along your village street that grabbed me. To Canadian eyes, the wonderful Englishness of that sight, which must seem so matter-of-fact to you, is overwhelming. I forget how the scale of things in England is so much more human-sized than on this side of the Atlantic, simply because so much of it was settled and built on long before the age of the automobile. I've just found your blog via Attic 24, and am looking forward to looking back at earlier posts.
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