I’m going to post about the garden to start with. It’s a nice calm place to start.
We bought sausage baguettes from the Co-op on Wilford Lane and ate them as we watched the geese fly over on their daily trip to the river. It’s an extravagance but it’s nice to eat out once in a while, and it’s hardly Babylonian in its excess.
There was a robin, a crow, a few pigeons, some magpies and a flight of about a dozen long-tailed tits. You’s think I’d manage some decent photos but I had the small camera and it was set for close-ups. By the time I’d adjusted it I normally found I was zooming in on an empty branch.
The flowers were less flighty and I even got a couple of wildlife shots, though bees and caterpillars aren’t the hardest of subjects.
Caterpillar and flower. My flimsy knowledge of plants and wildlife is revealed for all to see.
Safer ground here – it’s a bee and a nasturtium
Imagine my mind like an over-full bookcase. As you force a volume of coin knowledge in at one end a book of insect knowledge falls off the other end.
Eventually the Council House clock struck nine and I had to leave for work. I may cover the events of the day later – breaking a grandmother’s heart, talking to a lunatic and cynically laying a trap for a potential young collector.
Those, of course, are just the highlights.
Runner Beans – guess what’s for tea
In Victorian times they were grown for their decorative flowers rather than the beans. You have to wonder who first decided to taste them.
We grow an heirloom variety of bean called a “black creaseback”. The beans themselves are black when mature. The pods are the usual green, and the flowers a lovely shade of purple. I have not tried runner beans yet.
Sounds a good bean, in a number of ways.
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What a pleasant start to the day!
IT was. 🙂
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Sausage baguettes sound good and makes me wonder if Belly Busters still operates in Newark Market. Good point about the beans. We grow them for flowers, too, and pick the beans.
I’m not sure about the name, but the vans in Newark market seem to have been there forever.
I often wonder that about runner beans…and even more about who thought it would be a good idea for me to taste them. I would like to see a picture of your long tailed tits as they are beautiful little birds. (hint hint)
I will show you yesterdays’s single photo but you must promise not to laugh. It is not good.
I never laugh at other people’s photos if only out of self defence.
:-)I can’r recall you publishing any bad ones.
What a nice treat!
Yes, it was. We’ve not spent as much time there as we should have done this year.
Perhaps you can slide in a few more visits.
Yes, I’m going to try for a few more. Autumn is still warm enough for breakfast outside. 🙂