A trip to the city always brings treasures. These are donuts made by Tantrum. I’m still thinking about them 3 days later 💭😍. Rhubarb & Custard, Mississippi Mud Pie and Almond Glaze Buttermilk ‘Old Fashioned’ Doughnut. Nommmmm! Thank you very much!

Three delicious donuts in a box

Some sweet photos from the medieval event at my local library recently. Unfortunately I did not have a medieval outfit to wear but the story teller did! There was also an artist there who drew us both. I was not expecting that. A great chance for me to play in front of a room full of people.

Female with silver hair playing a lap harp with a bookcase in the backgroundArtist's impression of a harpist and a storyteller in a sketchbook

I am a machine when it comes to potting on plants. So much of a machine, I don’t usually remember their names. I just know I’ve helped them along to the next stage of life and that’s great (and meditative when you’re doing 96 of them). It’s always lovely then, to find a plant I’ve worked on months before and see it in full bloom. This beauty today was one such encounter.

red gardening gloves in the foreground, then raised beds, flowers and a polytunnel in the backgroundclose up of a pink daisy like flower with delicate, pointy petals

I highly recommend both series of Slow Horses. Gary Oldman is just brilliant with an all round wonderful cast. I love espionage, I love keeping it real. This is raw and rough. Watching polished Hollywood films after this makes them look weird. This is witty, gripping and mysterious. I was hooked.

I made elderflower cordial from the big bush in the back garden, where the robins live. It was fun and turned out sweetly refreshing. Gotta restrain it however after finding some thrips had gotten involved in the sugar flower party. They certainly went out on a high 💃🏽🌸🌼✨

freshly picked elderflowers in a bowl elderflower held against the backdrop of a blue sky with a distant crow flying past elderflowers and lemon in a saucepan of water a bottle of freshly made elderflower cordial