1. I add the tomato ketchup to the sandwich but it keeps slipping off onto my fingers. Lick, lick, lick.
2. I finish my day working on a design/DTP project. It’s a while since I’ve done any work in Inkscape and it’s a lot of fun. The event the work is for should be a lot of fun too.
3. I take a decaff Earl Grey and a Wispa to bed with me. It’s decadent but delicious.
Between illness and busy-ness, May has been a tough month – I need to start Three Beautiful Thing-ing again to refocus on the good bits!
1. I sit in a pool of light in the woods reading about mysterious things in the dark depths of the sea.
2. We’ve left it too late to go to the shop before dinner but John improvises and it’s lovely.
3. The purring of the cat curled around my head drowns out the white noise of the rain.
On Sunday, we went on a Wild Food Foray just north of Bolton Abbey, North Yorks, organised by Slow Food West Yorkshire and led by medical herbalist & wild food expert Jesper Launder.
It was a glorious day – beautiful countryside and super sunny but with a lovely cooling breeze and a river for Lily to cool off in – and under Jesper’s tutelage, we got to try over a dozen different plants. We also did a spot of crayfishing in the river (catching nasty, invasive Signal crayfish), which was a lot of fun.
There was really too much information to take in during the day and I’ll probably only be confident identifying a few of the things we tried – but it still was an excellent day and a great introduction to the potential finds out there. I’d highly recommend going on such a walk and we’ll certainly go on more in different locations/seasons.
Some of the things we tried (in rough order of trying them):
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