Lady Magnon shelling Walnuts for a cake, Bok on the prowl, Cows watching the whole event.
Just another day at the cottage. We were actually waiting for a huge lorry to deliver all Wills-n-Kellogg's stuff from Australia. Lady M decided to fill in the waiting hours with a spot of cake making; it calms her nerves.
The furniture eventually arrived (bloody loads of it), the cake was baked, the Cows moved on, Bok had a little sleep, and we had our afternoon tea.
Yup; just another quiet day.
Cows always approach to see what you're doing! Love Bok on the prowl. It all looks so peaceful where you are.
ReplyDeleteBok was trying to organise them, but they took no notice.
DeleteWould like a quiet one myself. Not sure why your comments have disappeared off my blog posts. Me being heavy handed with a delete key by accident, a poltergeist, a hacker......who knows!
ReplyDeleteI though I must have said something inappropriate. I do that some times.
DeleteNo I'm very thick skinned. Comes from having a twelve year old and people with damaged frontal lobes!
DeleteNot an udder can I see. Happy days in the countryside.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a milking herd.
DeleteLady M's hair looks good.
DeleteI'll tell her you said so.
DeleteA beautiful scene. How was the cake?
ReplyDeleteVery good, although I'm not keen on nuts in cake.
DeleteThere must be very few better places in which to shell walnuts and contemplate life.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to agree with you there!
DeleteWhat an idyllic scene Cro ..... I feel a Cro painting coming on !!!!!! XXXX
ReplyDeleteLovely isn't it; I'm always happy when the cows visit.
DeleteSo the big 'move in' is almost upon us. You must be excited.
ReplyDeleteThey're already in, but this was all the extra furniture, kitchen stuff, music stuff, etc, from Australia.
DeleteLooks lovely, Cro. As I'm sure was the cake.
ReplyDeleteThe cake was good, but I prefer fruit to nuts in cake.
DeleteIn Paradise. The atmosphere fills your photograph.
ReplyDeleteI also wanted to let you know I was glad to see your drawings with the plane trees. A couple of years ago, I was in London around this time of the year, and got to see a team of tree trimmers giving October trims to trees on the street right behind the Tate Britain. I was fascinated by their daring performance up in the air.
Best wishes.
I saw some public workmen doing the exact same thing today on the way home from shopping.
DeleteYou left off part of your title. It should be "Just another day in Paradise." (Assuming the cows don't have an unpleasant smell about them.)
ReplyDeleteI quite like the smell of cows; very earthy. What they leave behind is not quite so nice.
DeleteI love that the cow come for a visit !
ReplyDeleteYou do live in paradise.
cheers, parsnip
And they're Blonde d'Aquitaines too.
DeleteSounds like a lovely day.
ReplyDeletePerfect (for autumn).
DeleteAfternoon tea and cake - it's a very civilised life you're leading, Cro!
ReplyDelete(How patient of Lady M, it takes me forever to shell enough walnuts to make a decent cake.)
The walnuts are very good this year. One tap and they come out almost whole.
DeleteIt's so satisfying when the nuts come out whole. We have the devil of a job with our crop - Himself sets to work outside with a flat stone and a hammer!
DeleteA lovely bucolic scene - Is it just an electric fence that stops the cows invading your garden? I love walnut cake - and I presume they are the ones you foraged and putting them to good use.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the electricity is even on! The walnuts are mostly our own, but a few have been scrumped to make up the numbers.
DeleteI totally understand Lady M. I tend to cook sweet things to fill in my time when waiting on things. I do not understand why I do this, but it just fills my time with something pleasant.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very lovely scene, Cro, and very nice and peaceful to view.
We'd been waiting for this delivery since august, so, as they were already several hours later than promised, she was trying to think of other things.
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