More Favourite Places

After posting yesterday's picture at Pressmennan Wood, I noticed that the "One year ago" link showed us at Knowes Farm feeding the chickens. So, when we found ourselves there again today and they got bread to feed the chickens again... well, I had to Blip this one. The only real difference in a year is Gordon's hair which looks like it's taken a year to grow!

We cycled along to East Linton for a picnic by the river Tyne, then stopped off at Knowes on the way home. The Farm Shop has changed hands since last year and it's even better. The children were a little taken aback with the very dead partridge and hares hanging in the glass fridge and the live lobster and crab in the aquariums, but that didn't last long. We were all impressed by the cheese! And of course all that fresh, muddy veg...

We arrived home laden with vegetables covered in Knowes mud, one of them picked ourselves from the field (a little pumpkin, and duly paid for - 35p!). And we ate.

I made a ham and pumpkin soup with yesterday's ham gravy plus an enormous red onion and the little 35p pumpkin, which was a great success. Then a range of cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cous cous steamed with raw grated carrot and red onion, and ham warmed with everybody's favourite : "Not Courgette."

If I'd told them it was courgette they wouldn't have touched it. The shelf label definitely said courgette, but it was round, lumpy and hard-skinned, like a little pumpkin with a pulpy centre but without seeds. It cost 50p, and I think it was the best vegetable I've ever tasted. Everybody loved it.

And everybody loved the day. "We should do this more often Dad!" they said quite a lot. And so we shall. And from photographic evidence so we have done! More of the same please.