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Pineapple chunks with chopped basil. Its tempting to add a smidgen of rum but it's going to be a busy morning.
Packed with fibre, vitamin C and antioxidants.
At low tide the sands just go on and on. Birds feed on the creatures living just below the surface. All is well. Until the tide sweeps back in at a surprisingly fast rate. There's even a bore that, when the wind and moon are in the right alignment, can be several meters high.
The danger really is extreme.
I posted another shot of this house a while ago. I just like it. The front door has been replaced recently using a 'period' design. I watched it being hung in place - super workmanship.
I really like the lead flashing above the door, carefully cut into scallop shapes. A nice detail. The internal shutters are originals, as are the window frames.
It's called 'The engineer's house' because the castle engineer lived here for a while. I think that might have been Thomas Harrison, who did extensive work on the castle, including building accommodation for male and female prisoners.
If you know who the engineer was for certain, do let me know!
It's my turn to cook this week, so here are the ingredients.
The Food Hygiene people like me to use a supermarket, for the purpose of traceability.
I record every major 'event' as a picture, so I can present my records when inspected.
The allergen here is celery and nobody here has a probelm with that. There are no chillies today because I know some people here don't tolerate them.
The red lentils just melt away and provide thickness; they also contain 26% protein, which is amazing from such an inexpensive pulse.
A bag of curly kale is also full of goodness, and adds some visual interest once it's all blended.
The Harris is a gallery that has been closed for the last two years for 're-imagining' inside. It should have re-opened this spring but remains shut.
Baked in the new rubbery baking mold.
Glazed with strawberry jam, coz I could.
45 minutes at 160 deg C
More moist than heretofore.
It'll do.
Given a cans of cooked garden peas - i didn't know that was a thing - and asked to make lunch, what to do? Blitz the peas with some chili flakes and oil and dust with cayenne pepper. Serve with tortilla chips. Just right for a light and nutritious lunch.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's music is helping me to change step, change pace, this morning. it's so easy to become synchronized with the world's rhythms that one loses track of one's own beat.
There's a cafe on platform 4 run by Costa. It does a brisk trade. People come in empty handed and leave with one of those paper take out cups. I won't contemplate the horror of drinking coffee out of such a receptacle.
At the back of the cafe I found this deserted haven. Even the station Tannoy can barely be heard here.
A cute little bee working hard during the windy winter here in LA.
SOOC from the Vivo X200 Pro telephoto sensor
Magnolias evolved about 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs could have enjoyed their beauty as much as we do now. There were no bees then; pollination is by small beetles that are trapped in the flower at night.
What can you do with unwanted CDs? I used to hang them on strings around the veggie patch as bird scarers. But here they have been made into a dress!
When I was little all the fire engines were Dennis or Simon Snorkel. This one is made by DAF and these days they're called an 'appliance'.
Firefighters arrive to put out a fire on Fenton Street. A second arrived shortly after I took this but I couldn't hang about to see what else was going on.
A buttercup stands alone in the rain.
I was looking to buy a Sony camera in order to fit a macro lens the other day but it said that it wasn't 'weather sealed'. That would have been a pointless purchase then, given the amount of rain now, and to come with El Niño.
For now. this will have to do.
The whitebeam's bark is smooth and covered with interesting dots and lines. Could they convey a secret message?
A flour with so-called ancient grains and seeds incorporated. Tasty, and look at that crust! But the small seeds get stuck in the gaps between my teeth. Probably won't make this again for a while.
Not only is this tree covered in bark, which it sheds naturally, but it is also covered in ladybirds.
The Kenneth and Avon Canal runs in the south of England between Bristol and Reading.
IDK how long it would take to get here, but it's at least 260 miles away. That's about 2 weeks of steady cruising just to get this far.
You need to run the engine for about 6 hours per day to power the batteries for the fridge and lights and other electrical items.
Many boats have small log burners for heating, which are essential during colder months.
Well, i like glass. I found this today in a thrift shop. It's a somewhat marine shape. A big bubble that's been set about with a grinding wheel to produce this interesting pattern. I like how it plays with the light.
Seen on High Street, Lancaster.
Poorer families, if they could even afford to buy coal, would often have to take it from the front door through the house and put it in a heap or bunker in the back yard.
Middle class households had coal delivered directly to the cellar, via a coal hole in the pavement, like this one.
Coal cellars were often damp, leading to coal becoming damp and difficult to light and keep going. Thus, we see here a ventilated cover to help moisture to be vented to the outside.
Samphire is a succulent, salt-tolerant plant that grows in littoral areas. What you see here is marsh samphire; it's the stuff that some of our sheep graze on, giving the meat a distinctive sweetness. Sometimes, samphire is also called 'asparagus of the sea.'
I got this clump today and lightly boiled it, which made sure it was clean of any impurities and bacteria. The local water comapny isn't as careful about dischages into the lakes and bay as we would prefer.
Some toast, some grilled sardines, pickled cornichons, and preserved tomato, and a dash of lemon juice is all I needed for a tasty and nutritious tea today.
This is part of my 'cooking on a budget' project, designed to make healthy and tasty food available for very little money.
If you are interested in learning more about smphire, read on:
I'm charmed by this threshold. The drain cover appears to be a later addition, or else why not tile it with the same mosaic? The St George's Cross is an interesting detail. I find the whole thing to be an allegory.
Today was cooking class, and we made a bunch of things, including this pesto. Basil, parsley, parmesan, roasted pine nuts, garlic, salt, a bit of chili, and olive oil. That tiny bit of chili was new to me in pesto, and I have to confess it works.
And just look at that color! We had some with farfalle at the end of class, and a little pesto goes a long way. Hot or cold, I think this is going to join my list of 'go to' recipes.
These Rockdove slippers (designed in California) arrived this week. My second pair. To celebrate and comfort against the coming winter chill.
Admittedly they are devoid of any elegance, but they are warm, light, grippy, supportive, comfortable, machine washable and quick to dry.
My friend declined the offer of a pair, preferring bare feet. Probably related to hobbits.
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River Lune at low tide. One can smell the decaying water plants in the sunshine. It smells like being at the seaside. Looking at the silted-up river bed it's hard to appreciate that large sailing ships came this way before the advent of railways in the 1840s.
Handelsbanken plc is a UK-based bank that appears to be a subsidiary of the better-known Swedish bank. It was interesting to see a branch here in Lancaster. It has the air of a 'private bank' similar to Coutts, but I believe that is not so.
They have a nice building.
The shocking state of the paving slabs is common across the rest of the city, regretably. Here, being on a hill, rainwater tends to run under the slabs, washing away the supporting sand. This leads to general weakening of the pavement/sidewalk and breakage.
21 July 1990 - Berlin - where the Wall stood, Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' was performed. Cyndi Lauper opened the concert. It was electrifying.
I don't have any pictures from those days, so here's a wall near me now. I'd love to meet the artist.
Some say that eating local honey helps to prevent hay fever. I would disagree and so would science. However, it's well worth supporting your local bee-keepers for the sake of farming and nature conservation.
And just bear in mind those busy worker bees:
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
Shakespeare must have seen bees returning to the hive after foraging, legs covered with pollen to feed the rest of the colony.