bank holidays – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:45:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg bank holidays – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 The Bank Holiday Weekend (Part II) https://shepline.com/2009/08/31/the-bank-holiday-weekend-part-ii/ https://shepline.com/2009/08/31/the-bank-holiday-weekend-part-ii/#respond Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:23:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/the-bank-holiday-weekend-part-ii/ ~ Spent more time than I would have liked crawling around in a bush by the Bicester ringroad trying (and failing) to get Bella out from beneath it.

~ Made 12lbs of blackberry jam…

Blackberries in the preserving pan

~ Harvested 1½ lbs of crab apples and bountiful supplies of runner beans…

Harvest

Crab apple harvest, year 1

~ I’m now looking up recipes for crab apple and sloe jelly and elderberry ice cream. Yum!

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It’s busy at the White Horse – many families out with their kites, flying them from the long meadow grass. The air is clear and we can see for miles across the Oxfordshire plain to the Chiltern Hills in the far corner. After our picnic lunch we take the nearby Ridgeway for a mile or two to see Wayland’s Smithy – an ancient burial chamber within a wooded copse of beech and oak trees.

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