It was difficult to make and difficult to cook and get just right. In Fee’s eyes, this made the recipe perfect. However Fee had insisted the shop keeper get in the necessary ingredients. The recipe for this evening’s dinner came from a very expensive French cookbook, consisting of ingredients that were extremely difficult to obtain in their small village shop. And certainly not that little pockfaced chopper.) Oh no no no…nobody treated Adrian MacArthur Alaster Onslow-Pike like that. How dare he! How bloody dare he? If the little butcher thought it was over, their little contretemps, he was very much mistaken. And the hide of the public school upstart to evict him from his shop. As if he, Adrian, born and bred on the land, didn’t know pork sausages from lamb. (The best butcher had unfortunately been denied their business after that unfortunate incident with the pork sausages. The best cuts of beef were bought from the second best butcher in town. How lovely it is.īut now - my book calls - The Golden Door by A A Gill - one of my favourite writers.įee had pulled out all stops for this evening. He is now having a bath in the birdbath, wings flapping, head down, shivering off the excess then in again for another dunking. The rain that is promised tonight is so very eagerly awaited. And a magpie has his beak firmly burrowed into the soil, looking for lunch.Īs I type, bees and butterflies flit around the flowers, well the latter flit, the former drunkenly lurch from flower to flower. Crimson Rosellas, sparrows and wrens are all enjoying the picnic. Alongside the grazing rabbits, blackbirds nibble the stale bread I threw out this morning. Even he admits they are very cute with their little white tails. Actually they are pretty safe most of the time. The farmer is having an afternoon nap.so they are safe, at least for now. Quick sprints to the clothesline or the herb garden or to change the sprinkler are all that I can muster this lazy Saturday afternoon.Īnd nothing stops the rabbit families from running out to the lawn and nibbling their hearts content. Sprinklers spray all day somewhere in the garden.
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