Devilled egg, mature cheddar wrapped in smoked ham, fermented cucumbers and yesterday’s leftover salad pimped with yet more home-brewed sauerkraut. A delicious lunch on a sunny day.
We’re not eating it in the garden thanks to the proximity of a newly-fledged blackbird. We spotted it in the middle of one of the bird baths (a deep garden saucer) when locking up the house at 9.30 last night - quite extraordinary! We fished it out, dried it off and popped it into the bay tree, without much hope for its survival overnight. Hasn’t got its flight feathers yet - we think it rather jumped the gun leaving the nest when it did. Daddy blackbird found it early this morning and is feeding it constantly - it’s very cute, but we’re banned from the garden today while it gets used to being out in the big wide world.