Tuesday, 25 January 2011

All things bright and beautiful

Last week I saw lambs tail catkins on the road to South Yardley; today I saw pussy willow glistening in the drizzle and the snowdrops by my front door are breaking out of bud. Yippee - spring has sprung!!! (My primroses were originally from my uncle's garden in Devon and flower from late November so they no longer count as indicators of spring)

Yesterday I made some barra brith for the Start! course on Wednesday. I had written on the recipe that it fitted a 2lb loaf tin but I think that was when I used the weights - this time I used my new cup measures which Heather gave me and it was a bit much. Perhaps next time I will use the 3/4 cup :0)


My cup measures

Barra brith - Speckled bread
I am currently reading Can these dry bones live? by Frances Young on the doctrine of the Atonement. It is one of those books I need to read with a notebook to hand in order to get my thoughts straight.


1 comment:

angela said...

I have also been given the russian doll cups - aren't they fun. Wish I'd known about Frances' book last year when I had to write on the atonement.