Countryside Fayre

What a good day to pick elderflowers ................ after days of showers today has blue skies and warmth. We are desperate to pick elderflowers for our Whitsun cake, curds and preserves. we make them into a thick cordial and use when we want to, they do not last very long on the tree before turning brown.  If we could package the view, sounds and weather this morning and sell it we would make a fortune, we went riding about 8.00am and it was beautiful the sun shining through the trees in the woods and not a sound except the birds and pheasants, we saw a deer who just stood and looked at us, and then we went passed  a pot bellied pig and  gone was the peaceful morning as my mare decided it was the most scary thing in the world and it was obviously going to follow her, needless to say may daughter and I swopped horses and me (now of an age to collect travel tokens) went on the more sensible of the two horses.  Then this afternoon was baking time, we bake most days and managed to bake 32 cakes to our standard recipes, but tomorrow we experiment, I am going to try a coconut and lime drizzle cake and perfect the chocolate fudge cake, make an elderflower and something curd. My daughter will bake the Whitsun Cake for us all to try.  Now its time to go it is 20.10hrs and the chicken need to be shut up and the ferrel cat needs feeding, with a last look around the stables to make sure all are safe.  I'll take Chloe (Old English Sheepdog) and Carrot (Parsons Jack Russell) with me but they will go out again later. That's it really -  the end of the weekend. Bye for now...Caroline