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Coralroot bittercress (Cardamine bulbifera) is a member of the cabbage family. You can see the distinctive bulbils growing up the stem. They fall onto the soil to produce new plants.
Leaving the towpath I crossed a stile to follow a little used public footpath. The bridge was decidedly precarious.
This was my first view, looking up Radical Steps. Flaring sun ...
I used my hand as an improvised lens hood to produce the previous image. But this one has a certain charm, I think.
Cut an over ripe fig in half and place in a ramekin. Give a tiny drizzle of balsamic vinegar and honey. Microwave for less than a minute. Finish with Greek yogurt or crème fraiche.
Such was dessert last night.
A traditional name for wild garlic is 'bears garlic', hence the scientific name, allium ursunum. A head of these little flowers will give a sweet burst of garlic flavour when sprinkled over a salad.
The capstones on this canal bridge are rounded and tied with iron staples. This allowed the tow ropes to pass over the canal bridge, under tension, without dislodging the stones and fraying.
I saw this boat (ketch? schooner? Someone might tell me!) while visiting Weymouth. It was a long way away so I zoomed my phone to the max, and run the result through some bits of software to get this odd result. Purists will say it's rubbish, but it reminds me of a pleasant day in a county that I love.
An early art deco building that's now a pub. However. its history is fascinating. A place to buy sheet music and to hear live music, and changing use over time as society changed.
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The image shows "The Wave," a public art installation in St John's Square, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK. The sculpture was designed by artist Lucy Glendinning and installed in 2009.
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I had a single, lonely onion, and nothing planned to do with it.
What to do? Let it decay on the shelf, and do no good?
Slice it, and make a simple pickle. It's better than anything you can buy.
'Valentine' is because of Carol Ann Duffy's poem of the same name:
I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.
For RCMM, who loves poetry as much as me.
This building on three storeys with a good basement was an hotel for the Temperance Society. Located between the castle and Judges Lodgings. Now residential. Lancaster is renowned for embracing religious reform. An ancestor of mine established a number of Temperance centers in New Zealand where road builders were paid in rum rather than money. The world baffles me most of the time.
Tucked away behind a fence near the infirmary stands this electrical thing. I don't think a shred of consideration was given to aesthetics.
I thought a walk along the Black & White canal would be a good idea to clear the head today. Hardly a soul to be seen anywhere. It was a very quiet walk.
From the AI thing:
"The Lancaster Canal is known as the Black and White Canal because it transported coal (black) and limestone (white):
The canal was built to transport coal from the Lancashire Coalfields to the north and limestone from Cumbria to the south. The canal's original plans were to run from the Bridgewater Canal at Worsley to Kendal, but the final route differed significantly.
The canal was designed by John Rennie, a famous canal engineer. The canal was built in two sections, north and south of the River Ribble. A tramway was built across the River Ribble to connect to the Leeds–Liverpool system, so an aqueduct was never built.
The canal's last cargo was transported in 1947, and the canal was connected to the rest of the English canal network in 2002. Today, only the section from Preston to Tewitfield is open to navigation."
What can be simpler or more comforting than dipping toast 'soldiers' into a soft-boiled egg?
Today is the spring solstice in the northern hemisphere, marking the first day of spring. Happy Ostara to all my pagan friends. 🌱
Ours is a shared kitchen. Another user seems to have borrowed the food processor. Fortunately I bring my own knives so we could still work.
A cook's knife, a paring knife, and a flexible filleting knife are all I ever use. Maintenance with a stone is done at home. but a steel in the wallet touches things up as we go.
Here's a recumbent trike made by Inspired Cycle Engineering in Cornwall. It looks seriously kitted out for daily use and indeed that's what it's for. I met the owner who was of mature years. "It keeps me mobile," he said.
The former cooperative society building in Lancaster. An interesting mixture of classical and arts and crafts elements.
La flor de clemátide
Pequeños zarcillos delicados, como manos suaves
Alcanzando como en oración, arriba y arriba se expanden
Buscando la luz …
Amira
I think I've finally got this cake baking in an air fryer right.
The trick is to stop the top cooking before the bottom. I used a saucer on a rack set above the mix.
Cost about 35p in electricity, so that's ok then.