Today was a good day for drying. So good, the wind broke the washing line. Here’s a photo of the new one.

Since I enjoyed reading The Man Who Loved Islands, I thought I’d try another one by DH Lawrence. I’m glad I did, as this is the best book I’ve read in a long time.

This week I added some seeds to my bread.

Just what I could find in the cupboard: sunflower, poppy, flax and sesame. I used a mix of 80% wholegrain flour and 20% white. Italian wholegrain isn’t quite as “whole” as I’m used to.

This week there was some locally produced chestnut flour to use up, so I put it in the bread mix. Here’s the recipe:

I thought it would be nice to use this blog to track the coming of spring, my favourite time of year. So here are the first daffodils. They look a bit odd. Perhaps they are a wild variety.

At last we’ve had some snow here today. But it’s wet and thin. So here’s some Swiss snow from a couple of years ago.

Look what I found when I sawed through a branch of a tree I cut down.