The End of May

Hello Lovelies,

are you fed up with all my pictures of the May countryside yet? I am totally addicted to it...sorry.

I've been walking again, through fields of green and yellow.........

Watching the wheat get taller in the fields..........

and stopping frequently to admire the Hawthorn blossom .........

It hasn't all been blue skies, on Friday ( and again today) we have had rain. But the flowers in my front garden still look so pretty in the damp...........

Especially the Poppy buds, I thought.......

Yesterday the sun was out again, and in the sheep field the Ewes were sporting new hair do's.........

And their lambs look so big!....the horizontal one was fine...chewing the cud as it relaxed in the sun.

In my friend's garden I was enchanted by the colour of these wall flowers...........



and envious of the prefect Lupins..........



There were beautiful roses in bloom too. This unfurling bud caught my eye.........

So delicate and dreamy....just gorgeous.

I have managed to spend a little time indoors. For my eldest two boys ( my twins ) birthday cake,  I slung too many eggs in a bowl..........

 It was THIS recipe tripled. 

Gosh, it was a lot of mixture, and rather a messy experiment if I'm honest...........

But it worked, and I ended up with two large, rectangular cakes...........

When they were cool I added some simple butter-cream, and dusted the top with icing sugar......

It was all a bit rough and ready, including the 15 candles...........

 But it did taste good, and there plenty to go round.

For this years cake I certainly would not earn a place on the Great British Bake Off

But I do think that my friend Jo might!

Just look at the  amazing cake she made for her daughter recently........

Isn't it wonderful.....I'm in awe.

Jacquie x