Firsts

It has been another lousy year in the garden. Partly my fault and partly the weather. And there appears to be an all-you-can-eat evening cafe for rabbits that has set up business at the allotment.

But let’s not focus on the negatives.

Let’s celebrate the positives. There is much to be grateful for but I admit I am struggling a bit at the moment. I am in the doldrums and I haven’t a clue why (so unlike me).

I aim to combat that with knitting and baking bread. I had a book token (I know, how quaint!) so treated myself to Dan Lepard’s The Handmade Loaf. I like his Short and Sweet which I received for Christmas so I’m hoping this will be just as good.

It was published a while ago and should be just the ticket for making fancy pants bread. It’s subtitled Contemporary European Recipes for the Home Baker.

I’ve also been enjoying the first strawberries from the plot and the first sweet peas from the garden. Everything seems so much later this year but all the more sweeter for it.