Blimey, I’ve got my work cut out for me this weekend:
Outside, I will be:
Planting daffs and bulbs various – as well as tidying up the beds, ditching the annuals and dividing and re-homing some of the herbacious perennials.
Planting up various bowls and planters with hyacinths and paper-white daffs ready to bring in for the festive season to decorate the house.
Scooping up windfall apples and pears from my mum’s garden to stew, bake and crumble-ify (it’s a word).
Hunt down some elderberries (see below).
Inside, I’m planning on:
Bottling up my sloe and blackberry and apple gins. All the fruit is in the freezer, ready to go and I’ve just bought some stoppered glass bottles – they’ll make great Christmas presents for foodies.
Making up some elderberry cordial to bottle for winter (it’s packed with vitamin c and a great soothing warm drink during cold season).
Feeding my cake! My first Christmas cake baked perfectly and is now carefully stowed, ready for the festive season. I plan to feed it once a month between now and Christmas with a slosh of brandy. I will be scouring Pinterest for decorating ideas…
Finally deciding on and ordering the new curtain fabric for our open-plan living/dining space – which do you think?
Then there is just the small task of starting to potty train Country Bebe… but that is a WHOLE other post…
Hope you have a good weekend!
CF x