Since I enjoyed reading The Man Who Loved Islands, I thought I’d try another one by DH Lawrence. I’m glad I did, as this is the best book I’ve read in a long time.

This week I added some seeds to my bread.

Just what I could find in the cupboard: sunflower, poppy, flax and sesame. I used a mix of 80% wholegrain flour and 20% white. Italian wholegrain isn’t quite as “whole” as I’m used to.

This week there was some locally produced chestnut flour to use up, so I put it in the bread mix. Here’s the recipe:

I thought it would be nice to use this blog to track the coming of spring, my favourite time of year. So here are the first daffodils. They look a bit odd. Perhaps they are a wild variety.

Automator is an old Mac app for automating tasks. I was aware of it, but had never used it as other solutions such as Keyboard Maestro, Better Touch Tool or shell scripts have always seemed easier to me. And lately it’s been rumoured that Apple wants to retire the 20 year old Automator app in favour of the new(ish) Shortcuts app.

At last we’ve had some snow here today. But it’s wet and thin. So here’s some Swiss snow from a couple of years ago.

Look what I found when I sawed through a branch of a tree I cut down.