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.
34 comments:
Cows always approach to see what you're doing! Love Bok on the prowl. It all looks so peaceful where you are.
Bok was trying to organise them, but they took no notice.
Would 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!
I though I must have said something inappropriate. I do that some times.
No I'm very thick skinned. Comes from having a twelve year old and people with damaged frontal lobes!
Not an udder can I see. Happy days in the countryside.
A beautiful scene. How was the cake?
It's not a milking herd.
Very good, although I'm not keen on nuts in cake.
There must be very few better places in which to shell walnuts and contemplate life.
What an idyllic scene Cro ..... I feel a Cro painting coming on !!!!!! XXXX
I'd have to agree with you there!
Lovely isn't it; I'm always happy when the cows visit.
So the big 'move in' is almost upon us. You must be excited.
Looks lovely, Cro. As I'm sure was the cake.
They're already in, but this was all the extra furniture, kitchen stuff, music stuff, etc, from Australia.
The cake was good, but I prefer fruit to nuts in cake.
In Paradise. The atmosphere fills your photograph.
I 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.
You 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.)
I quite like the smell of cows; very earthy. What they leave behind is not quite so nice.
Lady M's hair looks good.
I love that the cow come for a visit !
You do live in paradise.
cheers, parsnip
Sounds like a lovely day.
Afternoon tea and cake - it's a very civilised life you're leading, Cro!
(How patient of Lady M, it takes me forever to shell enough walnuts to make a decent cake.)
A 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.
I 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.
That is a very lovely scene, Cro, and very nice and peaceful to view.
And they're Blonde d'Aquitaines too.
Perfect (for autumn).
The walnuts are very good this year. One tap and they come out almost whole.
I 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.
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.
I'll tell her you said so.
It'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!
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