Tassel Pickles - The Latest Batch

Today I labelled the results of my labours in the kitchen from Thursday to Sunday.

CAMRA Beer Styles Training

This afternoon Dawn and I joined a Zoom training session in CAMRA Beer Styles.

Shelland Walk

 

It was a lovely Autumn afternoon this afternoon so we went for a walk. It is a while since we had walked around there so I devised a short walk starting from Shelland.

More Harvested Produce

Dawn has been collecting more from the garden. The little chillis are quite hot.

Prize Received

Hooray! 3 Weeks after my win was announced in the paper (see here) my prize of a bundle of Times reference books has finally arrived.

Clare Walk

An end-of-summer walk today from Clare, a "Walkers are Welcome" town and a favourite place to walk from.

Weekend Quick Cryptic 112 - Solution

Phil Jordan, Sawbill and I are continuing to produce our series of Quick Cryptic crosswords. We take turns, publishing one a fortnight, and this week it's my turn. 

You can find a link to the crossword here and the answers below.  Feel free to leave any comments or questions here as you would do on  TfTT . You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Weekend Quick Cryptic 112 - Choose Your Five-a-Day

This time it is my turn to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword, Number 112 in the series, entitled "Choose Your Five-a-Day", which is a hint to the theme.

You can try and solve the crossword interactively here on MyCrossword or here on crossword.info. As usual you can download a PDF to print which you can find here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. The title gives a clue to the theme, which shouldn't be hard to spot. Comments and queries are welcome with the solution post (which also gives tips on some of the clues).  I will react to any comments or queries there as soon as I can. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Landguard Point

Today, while Sarah was attending an online training course at home, we took Ethan to Landguard Point to show him a different side of Suffolk - the Felixstowe docks and Landguard Point Nature Reserve.

Newbourne Walk

We have Sarah and Ethan staying with us for a couple of days so today we took them on a favourite walk finishing with a pub lunch.

Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce

The cherry tomatoes keep coming.

What Was in the Bowl

Nobody managed to guess it. Any more ideas before you click the "Read more" link?

Bury St Edmunds Walk

Today we had a local (to me and Dawn) walk with many familiar paths.

What's in the Bowl?

 Can you guess? Answer coming soon.

John's Walks 2024 Updated

 

I've done a further update to John's Walks 2024 to cover July, August and the start of September. It provides an index to all the walk blog posts so far this year. You can access it via the menu bar at the top of the page or the "John's Walks" section in the sidebar. As usual, I'll continue to update it periodically during the year - every two or three months on average.

Sudbury and Bulmer Walk

Today we did a familiar and favourite walk from Sudbury via Belchamp Walter and Bulmer.

Weekend Quick Cryptic 111 - Solution

Phil Jordan, Sawbill and I are continuing to produce our series of Quick Cryptic crosswords. We take turns, publishing one a fortnight, and this week it's Sawbill's turn. 

You can find a link to the crossword here and the answers below.  Feel free to leave any comments or questions here as you would do on  TfTT . You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Weekend Quick Cryptic 111 by Sawbill

This time it is Sawbill's turn to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword, Number 111 in the series. 

You can try and solve the crossword interactively here on MyCrossword or here on crossword.info. As usual you can download a PDF to print which you can find here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. Comments and queries are welcome with the solution post (which also gives tips on some of the clues).  I will react to any comments or queries there as soon as I can. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Houghton Hall

Today we were on a U3A Bury St Edmunds trip to Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

Tassel Pickles In Action

Once our visitors had gone, on Sunday Dawn was able to catch up with harvesting from the garden and picked 3kg of cherry tomatoes and 600g Hungarian Wax Peppers!

Another Crossword Win

Good news today. See here - I've won another crossword prize! It's my first since winning the September Monthly Club Special prize last October (see here).