Concert and planters

Nice concert at St James this morning to go along with the Farmers’ Market – it was a saxophone quartet from St Andrews.  I made a St. Clement’s cake (oranges and lemons) – named after St. Clement’s church in London which was next to the wharf where citrus fruit was unloaded.  It actually turned out very nice (a bit like a madeira cake), and by the time we left the concert, most of it was gone.  I made my own crystallized orange slices to go on the top (and ate the left over ones when I got home)

I need to retrieve my dish tomorrow as it was a present from my Mum and is one of my favourites.  It is actually a vegetable dish but it was the only one which would hold the loaf shaped cake on the way over.

This afternoon I filled up some big planters I bought from Wickes.  They were actually much bigger than I was expecting, so rather than fill them up with compost which would have been prohibitively expensive, I put some bricks and stones to fill them 50% and then covered them with hessian (left over from the roof work last year).  I then put in a layer of top soil and finally some compost. Plants from Caulders tomorrow.

Saphy gave the planters a bit of a check over.  Little does she know that our neighbouring black cat was in her garden again this morning.