Tasty Suppers.

I was going to spend the day working on my shell jewellery as the heavy overnight rain continued during the morning. But then the rain eased up and had stopped by mid-day so of course I had to get out in the garden. 5 hours later I had cleared one whole corner of the scree garden of the beech leaves that had fallen in the autumn. The rain had sort of stayed away, it was more low clouds that shed a gentle mist over everything. I cleared all the corner under the pampas grass taking care not to get poked in the eye, the only disadvantage of not having to wear glasses. I know that garden designers turn their noses up at pampas grass but in the right place it has its uses. It provides some useful height especially at this time of the year when nearly everything in the scree garden is less than 12" high and it makes a good screen for the outbuildings at the end of the garden. And our flat-coated retriever Zulu is buried beneath it.The winter flowering heathers are coming into their own. Soon that part of the bank will be a mass of colour. Down in the pond the frog spawn has all hatched and the edges of the pond are full of tadpoles.
Back up on the stone wall the red saxifrage shows even more colour.
Linas spent the day at MIA on an airsoft day. Apparently it was so misty that they spent most of the time getting lost and unable to see their opponents but still had a good time. He got home just in time to join us for a supper of lamb bhuna which I had made. Yesterday Linas cooked supper for us, a Filipino dish of pork adobo. He got the recipe from one of his MSN friends, bought a joint of pork and cooked it from scratch. It was really tasty and I might try cooking it myself one day.