Our first lemon harvest!

These are from the smallest of the three citrus trees we planted soon after we moved in. It's the only one to bear fruit so far, and the poor little tree was so weighed down with them that I felt sorry for it and picked most of the fruit before they were completely ripe.

They've ripened up now and taste delicious in Jamie Oliver's lemon curdy pud! It's much quicker to make than lemon meringue pie, and tastes great. Even better with some cinnamon sprinkled over the top before you put it in the oven. My new favourite winter dessert.

Winter days

It's getting colder and I'm getting back into knitting again.

This little beanie and booties are for my niece.

I found the pattern for the booties here, and made up the beanie pattern myself. Which explains why it looks slightly lopsided. The cables make it nice and stretchy so I'm hoping it will still fit.

The yarn is a lovely soft alpaca/wool blend, finer than I'd ever used before. I thought I would get impatient knitting with smaller needles (4mm) but because these are such small projects it didn't take long at all.

I had to re-learn crochet to do the trim around the booties, and it doesn't look quite like the picture, but I'm pretty happy with the final result, especially for a first try.

Next up: socks!