"I can dream, can't I.....?"

In the Pawprints of Pooh!

I have always been a lover of Winnie the Pooh. I think they were some of the very first stories I ever read. (My mum told me that I had cloth books with the characters on before I could even walk).

Tomorrow should be a very enjoyable day. The Marylebone Birdwatching Society will be visiting Ashdown Forest for a birding trip. It was in this area of woodlands and heath that Christopher Robin played with his teddy bear Pooh, and where his father A A Milne wrote the Pooh stories.

The area should be a great place for birds, as well as being an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and an SSSI. Mind you,  I do hope we will find the time to visit Eeyore's Gloomy Place and  100 Aker Wood....

Original Illustration by E. H. Shephard. Image credits here.

Domestic Goddess

This post is a paen of praise for my wife Angela.

On Saturday I was with the Marylebone Birdwatching Society here...



There were 31 of us enjoying some beautiful weather and some beautiful birds, including Kingfishers and Peregrine Falcon.




The sun was dappling off the River Hamble near to Southampton Water...




I didn't get home until nearly 8p.m. By then Angela had got TWO machine-fulls of washing done and line dried, baked these...



Delicious shortbread biscuits, produced this....




Sponge Tray-bake, to be finished off with Raspberrry Jam and Desiccated Coconut.

And last but not least...



Beef Chilli!

I must go birding more often....

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