I am keeping the project up but with a lot of time spent with older Daughter and family and younger daughter and hers  I need to catch up with documenting it!

It is an amazing day here in North Wales.  This was the view when I opened the kitchen door this morning and it has stayed pretty much like this all day.  The forecast for the rest of this week is similar so this is a time to appreciate how beautiful it is and to sit on the sense that everywhere needs watering!  Of course it does, we can't have everything!



Today's task was just a little one: to cut down the sweet cicely before it seeds all over the place.  Sweet cicely is a  very beautiful thing and while it is flower I love it for the foam of white and the scent. 

The plant has a sweet, faintly aniseedy flavour to my palate, and can be used in cooking instead of sugar for things like pies and tarts.  But when it finishes flowering and goes to seed it will seed itself absolutely everywhere, both where you want it and where you don't.  So I have cut it back and not even put it on the compost heap but taken it straight to the burn pile.




But mostly I have wandered about looking at things, watching the swallows fly and blowing my nose.  I have what is either a summer cold or an attack of hayfever, which is a new thing for me.  Some friends keep bees and have very kindly given us a pot of Stan's honey because very local honey is supposed to be good for hayfever.  I hope it works and even if it doesn't it is totally delicious with greek yoghurt and a sit in the sunshine!