Happy 28 years together!

 

Moulinex pain doré bread recipe

I just bought a breadmaker, because although I enjoy making bread I hardly ever manage to fit it in around the house building schedule, or when I try to I fail to make it back in time for the next step and it goes wrong…

190ml warm water (warm enough to warm the milk to room temp) + 60ml milk

(or 240ml water + 4tsp powdered milk)

1.5tsp salt

1.5tsp sugar

25g butter

400g bread flour

1.25tsp yeast

Program 1 (though I did 3 by mistake!)

Browning 1 if you want to use in sandwich maker

Weight 500g

Adding a garden tap

With people coming to render the front wall with lime (it has cement based render at the moment which doesn’t breath and also  it is a mess with the new windows), we need to add an outside tap so they can get water.

It took a bit more excavation than we had hoped to find the pipe!

Now it all needs filling back in…

Flowers

I grow veg far more than flowers, because you can eat them, plus I think they are easier!

Some friends gave us some flowers from their garden and they are amazing, food for thought!

Spring potager

 It always looks it’s neatest at this time of year, then it gets horrifically overgrown with some parched bits as the weather gets too hot to do so much!

Getting rid of the wall by the stairs

We were suffering from covid when the window guy announced he was coming a month earlier than expected. This wall needed to go before we could clear stuff out of his way to install all the windows. It was a bit of a trial tbh! But so glad to have it gone. There is another one the same the other side of the stairs still to go. Boo hoo hoo.

It looks fantastic now it is gone. But we are sticking with the plan of having a new wall here eventually to keep kitchen smells in the kitchen, plus a large part of the kitchen units need to be against that wall!

Spring gardening

Rhubarb growing - I thought it was dead!

Blossom on an apple tree

Broad beans starting to bean

Mowed and strimmed ready for weeding!

Planted cabbage, spinach, peas and mangetout

Strawberries planted. Cigaline (non remontant) in the front 2 rows, mariguette (remontant) in the middle 2 rows and some that we had in pots in the back 2 rows.