sunshine award

Long, long ago, way back in March, the lovely Floor Number Four passed on a Sunshine Award to me...hurrah hurrah.  

Now that the rain is back in the UK and we have started burning logs again I think it is time to spread the glowing golden rays to:

The Little Peach

Ruth Green design 

The Pea Pod 

Arcticmum blog 

SixtyoneA

Now I have to answer the questions...

+  Favorite Colour: 

   Grass Green

+  Animal: 

   Hippo.  I don't know why, but it's been like that since I was about 8.

+  Non-alcoholic drink: 

   Anything with ginger.

+  Facebook or Twitter: 

   Neither.  Am I missing out on everything??? 

+  Getting or giving presents: 

   Giving is better, but a just right suprise pressie can not be beaten.  How did they      know?

+  Flower:

   Anything that is not yellow at the moment - daffodil season is just finishing...

+  Pattern: 

   Small.  But bright is fine.

+  Passion: 

   Lino.  Seedlings. Hungarian folk music.  It will be different tomorrow.

+  Number: 

   42

will it be pink?

Today is beautiful and sunny ( I think we are allowed to be pleased because it did rain a bit yesterday...) and the perfect day for harvesting elderflowers.

We are really lucky because we only have to walk as far as the back garden to harvest ours and it is a beautiful black elder, so the flowers are pink - and there are hundreds this year, maybe thousands...the air is filled with the smell and buzzing creatures are coming from all around.

The first year we lived here I was uncertain as to whether the black elder was edible, but having made several batches of Elderberry Tonic for the winters and berry crumbles with a few elderberries thrown in I can safely say that we have all survived and the quails have thrived on elderberries each Autumn, so it must be.

This year is the first Elderflower Cordial year for this bush and I am really, really hoping that it will be bright, bright pink, like the flowers...24 hours of steeping has just begun, the kitchen smells fantastic...we will find out tomorrow!