HERE'S the recipe for this. So cheap and simple to make and tasty and warming to eat. The original BBC recipe also mentions curried pinwheels to accompany it, but I just had a home-made crusty bread roll. I made some yesterday for lunch when Gabby came to visit.
The Lakes and Waterfalls booklet is local-ish walks - many of the waterfall ones tell you to take the Heads of the Valleys road . . . The Poldark book is because I've been clearing a bookshelf and told myself - read it or get rid. Since I have been meaning to read the last few Poldark books for decades, now is the time! I'm a devil for putting off till tomorrow . . . The Alis Hawkins is the 4th book by her, set in the Newcastle Emlyn/Cardigan area of Wales, and about a nearly blind County Coroner investigating a murder. I can recommend her novels. The Road to Haworth is one I treated myself to last time I was in Hay. For once, it focuses on the Rev. Patrick Bronte rather than his talented daughters (although I am sure Branwell was talented though he was so weak). If you are a fan of the Brontes then I can really recommend this as it gets to the roots of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights in a way you'd never imagine. Finally, READ - Sue in Suffolk very kindly loaned me A Patch in the Forest, Elizabeth West's final book (she of Hovel in the Hills fame). Whilst it was different to the struggles in North Wales at the hovel, it showed that Alan was working on improving their final home - probably until the day he died, and he died not long after this book was published in 2001. What I loved about it was they had a good retirement - did what they wanted, when they wanted, no longer forced to live as hand-to-mouth as they had at Hafod. She clearly devoted a goodly amount of time to studying the wildlife - birds especially - in their garden, and wrote about it in great detail. I am very grateful to Sue for loaning it and will post it back to you tomorrow.
The Castles book was in the window of our local History Association shop, and although it's nearly all just ruins of castles, good to dip into and some interesting history. Another dipping into book is the one by our old Vicar of Brechfa, Patrick Thomas. He is a Canon now.
Having finished all 1,000 pages of The Pillars of the Earth, I have two more Ken Follett's to read when I have time. They also came from donated books at Tesco in Llandod.
Another for the pile, kindly sent my my friend Gay.
The girls killing a cushion this morning . . .
