E is for Everything

and Ever So Busy.  I went to the Community Health RUOK? Day barbecue at the Men's Boat Shed and had yellow cake thrust upon me.  We live dangerously here.
Mostly I've been organising two community events one of which was 'Our Wonderful East Coast Shore Birds' with Dr Eric Woehler.  This one was for the Friends of Triabunna Reserves and went well on Saturday.  The second is next Saturday so I may get to report on that later.
On Sunday I caught up with the things I'd let slip including Emancipating the Raspberries.  I have been watching the grass grow deeper and denser around the canes but hadn't really had the opportunity to devote time and flesh to an intricate delve around the prickly stalks.  It was well worth it, revealing newly emerging plants at ground level.

Now I'm waiting to Eat Cake.  I've wanted to make Maggie Beer's Chestnut Cake for ages and realised today I could.  With chestnut flour from Mercato, Pearl's nephew's olive oil and the verjuice she gave me last time I was in Adelaide, rosemary from the garden, pine nuts and orange zest, it's smelling divine - like Christmas pudding.  It is supposed to be served warm with Strega poured over, or mascarpone, but neither of these are readily available in Tribes.  Not to worry.  I consider it Pearl's birthday cake.

Happy Birthday, Pearly Girl.