still life

Life has been anything but still this year.

Soon after the builders departed we made a swift exit to the West Country.

Now that we are home things have returned to normal,

 weather included.

I always come home with found treasure,

beachcomb fodder.

I often get attached to some sort of flotsam,

I cannot walk a beach with my head up.

I swear if I lived closer to the sea I would have a house made of driftwood

 or one of those grotesque shell grottos at the bottom of the garden.

Its now the time of year to collect seed, plant bulbs and make...
 raspberry vodka of course!

The latter is an experiment

a bit like sloe gin but with raspberries and vodka,

using what I have in an effort to keep things thrifty

and I have ALOT of raspberries.

To 300ml of vodka I squeezed in 220g of raspberries

and 100ishg of sugar.

The recipe says to shake for a week and then leave for 10 weeks

strain out the fruit (and errr eat them??)

and then...

leave for a year....

really?

As with most of my 'wing it' ideas

I shall let you know how this goes.

It looks very pretty anyways,

but not sure I can wait a year!

*Saunton Sands beach.