What a good day it was....Friday 27th September 2013.

This was the hedge-trimmer at work!

From first flush of rosy-pink brilliance to inky-black depths of shooting-star activity, this

was a good day.

Alice took me out for her morning walk, thru' ankle-deep wetted grass, high above the river's rush and tumble far below.  She bounded off but I decided to stay put and not risk sliding down to join her!

Home to honey sweet porridge, scalding tea, oatcakes and marmalade, for I was going to walk down to the library and a big breakfast would get me there.  However, He was also going down to the town so I cadged a lift and got there much faster; and then I had some way to go to get to the coffee morning event that Rachel and friends were holding for Macmillan World's Biggest Coffee Morning Event at the Presbyterian Church in the Watton, Brecon. Party balloons announced its status and the entrance door led me straight into the midst of the Ukulele Band, playing away like crazy.  My, they were very keen, very good and great fun, and everybody was either clapping or singing along with them.

My curry

On my way to the library, others were collecting for charity, a lady whose shopping  trolley was in great danger of crashing into the road, and a visit to Easts the Butcher to ask if they could produce a gluten-free faggot?

Easts for faggots

A a few useful hours at the library, and then home by taxi, for the dear SO was much too busy to come down for me.  And then I was also very busy, getting on with the chutney making, washing out the jars I'd found, and making the kitchen messy!

And to round off the day, dinner out at The White Swan Inn at Llanfrynach, which was delicious; a chicken curry with rice, poppadums and mango chutney while he had an 8oz. steak with all the trimmings.

My pudding is an orange tart with a Cointreau syrup, ginger biscuit crumb and orange sorbet.

His pudding is a hot chocolate fondant, parsnip ice-cream, chocolate crisp and oreo crumb.

Our guests arrive, and too late for food, so we all go home and they cook themselves tasty cheesy omelettes and stay up late, long after we've gone to bed.

And we did see those shooting stars dash across the night sky - several of them, in fact, and they were, well, brilliant!!!

His steak .....






Toodle oo..........Daisy!
















































My pudding is an orange tart with a Cointreau syrup, ginger biscuit crumb and orange sorbet.

His pudding is a hot chocolate fondant, parsnip ice-cream, chocolate crisp and oreo crumb.

Our guests arrive, and too late for food, so we all go home and they cook themselves tasty cheesy omelettes and stay up late, long after we've gone to bed.

And we did see those shooting stars dash across the night sky - several of them, in fact, and they were, well, brilliant!!!