Friday, 26 March 2010
Food
Cakes are your friends
This from an edition of Delia Smith's Book of Cakes, published in 1977:
It never ceases to amaze me how popular cakes are... Perhaps the gloomier the state of the economy gets [sic], the more we need cheering up with a friendly cake now and then?
How very precient.
South Downs Way
Southease → Falmer
Distance: 6.97 milesAscent: 620 metres
Duration: 2 hours 35 minutes
The Bright Field
« Not walked | Not walked »
A strong south-westerly breeze, sun cutting through the clouds, and RS Thomas' The Bright Field in my mind:
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurryingon to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.