School run was pretty....blah,blah,blah; sheep, ice on trees, slippy road, ice fog in valley,..... although I did see a bird of prey take a rat from a farmyard. It crashed into a white hedge..and there was a great poof of frost and then they were gone, rat and bird. That was quite exciting... But c'mon, roll on Spring already.......... Whad'ya mean Winter's only just begun?....no,no,no, I want planting and strawberries and birds in the garden, other than robins, and fluffed up chickens, rather than the miserable looking molting sad ones I seem to have at the moment!
I cooked spaghetti for the chooks today. They're very Italian - loved it.
Then I saw something that made me really smile: Broad Beans. My broad Beans, some in pots some in the ground, are ignoring the weather, braving the ice age and popping their heads up at the meagre winter sun. How wonderful.
The onions too are toasty under the frosting.
And the leeks are delicious, seemingly unbothered by the cold. I made Leek, bacon and pork (leftover) pie the other day and it was deeee-lish.
I tried to get some leeks today and the snow is up past my knees!
ReplyDeleteTheMadHouse: Gosh, poor you.
ReplyDeleteSave me some of that pie please, sounds heavenly.
ReplyDeleteJames: I'll have to make you another one, the pie was a big hit.
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