Saturday 19th April - Easter Saturday

The day began with rain, and ended with sunshine. Appropriate really, when we are moving from The Crucifixion towards The Resurrection. 

Once the rain stopped I managed to get outside and refill all the bird feeders. They've been empty for too long waiting for me to order the feed. Now, of course, I'll have to wait for them to discover the feeders. I reckon the squirrels will be first...

Lunch was a triumph snatched from disaster. Yesterday I followed a recipe from the BBC Good Food website for cooking belly pork in the slow cooker. It's a two stage process, and remarkably simple. First the strips go in, with no seasoning or oil or anything, just as they ate, for three and a half hours on high. Easy peasy. Then you make a glaze involving garlic and ginger and tomato ketchup and honey and soy sauce. The pork is removed from the slow cooker and the fat and stuff in the pot poured away (NOT down the sink, it's very fatty!). Finally the pork is returned to the pot and the glaze stirred all over it, for another hour and a half on high. Still easy peasy... except I forgot all about it for nearly five hours...

I trimmed off the burned bits and we had what was kept for lunch. It tasted remarkably good. I'll definitely make it again. Properly. 

The afternoon was lovely, lovely, lovely, meeting up with our children to hand over Easter eggs over tea and cake at our favourite outdoor meeting place. It was WARM for the first time this year! I even took my coat off!

Seeing them is always so special, such a treat.

Music

The second movement from Schubert's Sonata in B flat major, played by Alfred Brendel.