Oxfordshire memories...

(And a quick foray into Berkshire!)

An unusually busy Sunday (by my standards!) spent in the kitchen: pumpkin lantern carved, seeds roasted in olive oil and seasalt flakes, flesh roasted ready for soup tomorrow; Halloween gingerbread biscuits baked; 12 blackberry and 12 black currant jam tarts made, using last year's homemade jam that turned out to be too hard to spread!

So rather than show you a kitchen that looks like it's been hit by a whirlwind, today I give you a memory collage of this week's trip to south Oxfordshire, with a quick hop over the border to Berkshire and Basildon Park.

Top row: Goring on Thames, Basildon Park, Nuffield Place
Second row: Wallingford Castle, Basildon Park, Sunset over Oxfordshire
Third row: Goring on Thames and Streatley
Fourth row: Goring on Thames and Streatley, including George Michael's home
Fifth row: Nuffield Place, Sunrise over misty fields


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