It was one of those days you sometimes get

latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.        (P.G. Wodehouse)

When ex shop display squash are tossed in spices and roasted, flecked with fresh mint, eaten with finger staining segments of pomegranate and too many spoonfuls of tahini.  Too many only in respect  of the waistline.

When the seemingly endless apple season meets this Jamie Oliver recipe for a vegan toffee apple upside down cake. It is cake best made a couple of days before you wish to eat it. I would add a sprinkle of sea salt to the caramel and some fresh ginger to the batter if i were you.

and as the clocks go back and the evenings draw in, thoughts turn to Christmas and a new flower school details here 

and Poldark, quite a few thoughts about Poldark, most are impure.