Mylor Oyster Festival

Mylor Oyster Festival this weekend - celebrating the last weekend of the native oysters season. Camel Valley and Skinners will have a bar there too, nice.

A good read

I love nothing more than a good book - I can literally put my life on hold until one is finished, should circumstances allow me to do so. A good bookshop can be one of the most soothing environments around; especially ones such as the Broadway Bookshop or Falmouth Bookseller.

So, am completely loving these editions that I came across this morning, via this blog. It's just a shame that it's in Swedish. From what I can gather they're from Penguin, but any Scandos out there able to translate for me?

Furthermore, have just found Twitterature, The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less. Clever, concise reading, or gimmick? Reminds me of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.


*** Have since found them. Called the 'Clothbound Classics' they are available here.

The love of a good shed

I bought this as part of David's Christmas present last year (just gone, that is) as I thought it would appeal to his love of a good workshop. I guess it was kind of one of those presents that you buy for someone, but would equally quite like to keep it for yourself too.

It's a beautiful book, filled with Nigel Peake's illustrations and drawings of assorted sheds, shacks and workshops, along with the odd poem and essay. He also has some lovely prints and things for sale here, although I actually got the book from here.

Bread of distinction

I am a very lucky girl. Not only do I live within 2 minutes walk of the awesome bakery Stones, but today they gave me some starter for sourdough bread. For free. Because they're nice like that.

And, it's not just any starter either, as theirs was originally given to them in 1983, by none other than the peeps of Moro. I figure that means that my new starter (or Mother, if you're rather) has aristocratic heritage. I will continue to feed it using this recipe from St John. Will post details of first loaf in a few days...

Today I saw

I've blogged about Today I Saw before, and rightly so, it's a lovely little project. This is different though, as this postcard, pictured above, arrived in the post for me the other day. Big thank you Jill, I love it.

Grow Your Own - Update

Growing in my garden right now: Broad Beans, Peas, Rainbow Chard, Lettuce, Garlic, French Tarragon, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Red Cabbage, Ruby Pak Choi, Chives, Thyme, Rosemary and Sage.

Seeds that arrived from the Heritage Seed Library yesterday: Carrot (Beta III), Pea (Clarke's Beltony Blue), Leek (Coloma), Pepper (Nardello), Lettuce (Bronze Arrow - particularly resistant to slugs, I'm told), Tomato (Auntie Madge's), and last but not least, my lucky dip packet: Tomato (Salt Spring Sunrise).

I'm hoping we'll eat very well this summer

Cubelight Lamp

Loving this little fella, 'Cubelight' by Fagerström & Abrahamsson.

Found on emma's designblog