Lazy Weekend

Last weekend was one of those that are classed way up there in the Summer has begun categories. I certainly wasn’t as busy as these little chaps! Lazing in the sun and doing some crafting, catching up on the last few episodes of the West Wing. Admittedly I was inside for that but my word it was necessary!

I don’t normally get as close to bees as this as I am rather scared of them as I react unpleasantly to being stung. Not in an anaphylactic shock kind of way, but in a swelling, uncomfortable, nasty to look at way.

But look at the details on the wings of this fellow! I was amazed! It is when I see shots like this that I love my new camera!

On Saturday I took G to Garson’s for his first visit. He has sampled the produce before but had never been with me. But once we were independently mobile this was one of the places on the list of must goes. I think he was smitten with the place before we even got there and he saw these cute little balls of fluff!

We had to pull over and take a closer look! I don’t think I’d ever been this close to a cygnet before. Obviously I wasn’t as close as the picture seems, I was pretty zoomed in as Mummy and Daddy did look rather protective and frankly death by swan attack wasn’t really on my to do list for the weekend!

Once this little bundle of fluff started to raise his downy head and opened a bleary eye I decided that the time had come to leave them to their snooze in the early afternoon sunshine. Plus Mummy Swan had started to pay me a little more attention than I was strictly comfortable with!

But of course Garson’s isn’t really about admiring the wild life on the way in. It is about the delicious goodies that you pick when you are there.

Peas and broad beans! I sat in the sunshine when we got home and shelled them all. Loving the pop of a pod as you gave it a squeeze and the furry interior of the broad beans. Each bean nestled into it’s own little perfect indent. They were delicious! I didn’t want to do much with them as I find that when we eat our pickings on the same day the flavour is so much more intense then you get from a supermarket or grocer. So for these I blanched them so they were just a little bit softer, dejacketed the broad beans and then when they were cool I tossed them with a minty vinaigrette and a little sugar. DELISH! G is already planning his next visit!

In other news tomorrow is the 12th and I will be doing my 12 on 12 again, although tomorrow is certainly not an average day in my life! But more about that when I post. I will be posting on the 13th as I will be home far too late tomorrow evening to be faffing with pictures. But if you are going to play along with me then leave me a comment and let me know as I would love to visit and see other snapshots of the day!