Recipe: Hearty Breakfast Wrap

Do you like breakfast, and food you can eat without cutlery? ME TOO. Today I'm going to show you my much-refined breakfast wrap and help get you started on a more convenient sort of breakfast food.

Spring is Happening!

Spring has barely arrived but the garden is not wasting any time. Roses I pruned a few weeks ago already have buds on them. Bees are swarming around the lavender. Flowers I didn't know I even had have bloomed and it's just so pleasantly warm. Spring is HERE!

Oh, and - contain your excitement, folks - the artichoke is flowering.

Chard at Work

Chard! This "bitter, pungent and slightly salty" relative of beets and spinach has been, slowly but steadily, settling in to the bed beside my perpetual monster spinach for a few months now. I have the rainbow variety, so my plants have a mix of green, red and yellow stems - it's really pretty! But also it just seems like such a "fancy" ingredient. I don't know what to do with it.

Luckily, Martha Stewart has me covered (not a phrase I ever thought I'd say): it's time for some chard pasta.

Winter's End

Tomorrow is the first official day of spring and I'm so keen for the sun to be out. It will finally be warm enough again to enjoy being out in the garden without being too hot to enjoy knitting (summer is a rough time to knit!). My Luggala is taking shape, the Siren Song has a new home and the chickens have an extended yard to scratch around in.

One of these days I'll remember to tidy up before I take these pictures. At least it's authentic?

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Springtime

As we approach the official beginning of spring I can't help but think that the garden knows something I don't - the plum tree has burst into flower seemingly overnight, the nights are cool but still, the days boast the most room-temperature weather I've ever felt and there is green everywhere. It's as if we're on the verge of an explosion of life, and everything is just quietly waiting for the signal to go. I can't wait.

I Heart Luggala

You guys, this project is consuming my life and I wish it would never end (but also that it would so I could wear it already).

Columbine in sunlight is a lot pinker.

The Cast On Itch

Yarn has arrived and, despite my best efforts to the contrary, I have cast on a new project. We also made dumplings and I discovered just how hard rust stains are to get out of concrete. It's been a very adult week.

Proud Chicken-Mum moment: they finally agreed to put themselves to bed on the roost at night. Finally.