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This week's effort includes marrow, capsicums and butter beans. Tomato puree and sweet paprika for colour, potatoes for thickness, and cayenne pepper for a little heat. Plenty of rosemary and garlic for more flavour.
Seen at The Gregson Community & Arts Centre.
Home for a plethora, a cornucopia of cultural activities and stuff, and Lancaster's only community-run bar.
It's like a second home for some, and welcoming to all.
Worn. Extended. Modified. Enhanced. Used. Hand-built. Sweat. Skill. Improvised. Adapted.
Some of the things i see around me.
I try to find a moment of joy every day: seeing this small Tortoiseshell butterfly basking in the sun was today's. Middle of October, 4 deg C only an hour or so previously, and here is this beautiful butterfly.
I have seen so few this year; they seem to be in sharp decline in this area. It was a joy to see this one.
More, here:
This morning demanded a steamy cappuccino - 80s style. But I don't have any suitable cups, so here it is in a glass.
Yes, it doesn't look like the proportions are right, but they are close enough for government work, as we used to say.
And it's my kitchen ... =]
Looking across Morecambe Bay towards Warton Crag. It's an eceptional area of natural beauty, made up from limestone crags, and is home to wildflowers and butterflies. I shall go there soon. But today was at the dentist, so I think it's time to go home for a cup of tea.
It's Sunday afternoon and no cake to go with tea. Argh!
Needs must, and I've made my cake in the air fryer. It's a first, and not perfect, but it's quite acceptable. Baked in about 35 minutes.
The top needed more protection to avoid it going so firm, but it's cooked through and still reasonably moist.
As tea cakes go, this'll do.
The light this morning was almost turquoise. The moon reflected an extraordinary light. Such an early morning delight.
Just stand still for a moment and listen. This place is teeming with life; little birds, insects and field mice reveal themselves.
England's woodland has shrunk over the years to well below the European average.
The Woodland Trust is a UK charity that works to conserve woodland and ancient trees. Whole ecosystems are preserved - not just trees. Some rare butterflies have been saved from extinction.
Walking along the Thames Embankment one day I came across this truncated lamp post. Odd. But look closely and you'll see a vent where the light should be. This is the work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, the engineers who sorted The Great Stink of 1858. This pipe vents the explosive gases from the sewer that runs just below. Usually these pipes are much taller.
I have an irrational fascination - benchmarks!
Here is some general info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(surveying)
if you are in UK, you might have some near you. You can search for them, here:
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/geodesy-positioning/legacy-data/...(BMs,local%20mean%20sea%20level%20datums.
There's an intereactive map:
interactivemaps.uk/os-benchmark-archive/#7.82/53.521/-1.889
This one is on the wall at Moor Gate. I hadn't noticed it before today. Good thing it wasn't a snake instead!
If it doesn't say 'dishwasher safe' this is what happens. I shall have words with the chef de plonge.
It looks thicker than what you might get at a restaurant but this is how I prefer it. It's a meal in itself.
Beetroots
Carrots
Onion
Garlic
Celery
Beef stock
Salt and pepper
serve with yoghurt or sour cream and fresh dill. And bread, of course.
Not the UK native variety but just as pretty. Edible, with health benefits, too. Seen at the edge of a carpark in the autumn sunshine.
A prickly and dense bush that makes an almost impenetrable hedgeline, without recourse to barbed wire and other ugliness.
Cup and ring stone dating from 3000-1700 BCE.
There's an interesting gallery dedicated to Scotland's First People.
This is a big stone that would take two strong people to lift.
This stainless steel filter for my Aeropress arrived today. I dread running out of paper filters and this can sit at the ready for emergencies. It works well enough but I think I prefer the added smoothness that a paper filter gives to the brew.
It doesn't lend itself to the inverted brew technique as it doesn't stick to the filter holder like a damp paper one does.
But it would be an excellent piece of trekking kit and it weighs next to nothing.
aka Clematis vitalba.
The whole plant has many traditional medicinal uses. It is still used in homeopathic medicine for things like pain relief.
I was just happy to see this growing over a wall in Glasgow, while being rained on. I felt right at home.
Saw this on my way to meet my friend for coffee. Made me think of old trawlers.
It's been an odd kind of day, but it was great to catch up over a decent brew.
The original icon is in Rome. This shrine is in Lancaster Cathedral.
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come; before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
Even though these wild strawberries have an intense flavor there are too few here to be worth gathering. I'll leave them for the birds.
I wonder where the other one is. Did the owner walk home with only one boot? What made the owner leave this one here?
So many questions. I should really get a life =]
I learned to type on an IBM Selectric typewriter (the one with a 'golf ball' and always yearn for the feel of its keyboard.
I found this one yesterday. It doesn't feel quite the same but it makes a delightful clack when operated. The switches are all connected optically so the response time is virtually instantaneous.
I'm hard on keyboards - you may think this is a re-post but it's actually a different keyboard altogether. This is a GK61 with Gateron optical switches.
Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus were all visible at same time in a curved line across sky. Some people call that a celestial parade. I couldn't take a picture worth looking at but here's a picture of the moon instead.
It was also possible to see several satellites moving across the sky, too. In case you're in Maryland, that was me waving 👋
Smiley takes a trip across town and celebrates the weekend.
These little bits of guerilla art make me smile.
St Anne's-on-the-Sea station was opened in 1873 as Cross Slack and renamed two years later. I suppose it was to avoid confusion with nutty slack; who knows? It's a pretty, clean station which appears to be maintained by a devoted band of volunteers.
Pausing for some shade for a moment as I walk along part of the Lancashire Way.
"Lancashire Walks - the Lancashire Way a long distance walk exploring the county" www.lancashireway.com