FRGGL

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Wife's cook & gardener. Novice artist & musician. Enjoyer of films. Accountant with leftist principles.

Fuji Cherry Bonsai leaning left, covered with blossoms
Fuji Cherry Bonsai blossom with more unopened buds
Aberlour A'bunadh batch 84 bottle and tube at the back, with large glass to left containing a whisky highball and a Glencairn glass containing a dram
Bottle of Aberlour A'bunadh batch 84 with back of tube detailing the whisky.
Witchmark's 70cl 60%ABV single origin new make spirit. Front of the bottle.
A plate of grilled chicken Korean style with sesame seeds, homemade coleslaw, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and mayonnaise.
Not quite before, but partially through cleaning and filling
Mountain maple bonsai in autumn colours against green fence panel
Chunks of chicken that had been marinated in a tikka masala yoghurt sauce with onions peppers and tomatoes
Large ripe cooking apple ready for picking.
Chocolate caramel fingers with orange flavoured caramel, very tasty! Not sure who or why they were renamed to Millionaire shortbread.
Bat flies across the screen in an arc from the top left and exiting top rightish
Itoigawa Juniper in tall pot cascade.
Dawn Redwood forest planting had a decent trim. The new growth hasn't hardened off but it needed to be opened up due to the congestion of foliage.
Dark red rose looking very light in the sunshine
Herald moth on raspberry leaf
A £3 Thai mango being sold in Waitrose in the UK, fairly small but perfectly ripe
Maple bonsai before defoliation and growing really well.
Lamington on white plate, vanilla sponge with chocolate coating and rolled in coconut.
March 2025, not many cherry blossoms but leaves already coming through.
3 Hawk Moth Pupae, I have put them in a tray with some soil and covered them with some fallen leaves and left them out of the way so that I don't accidentally step on or destroy them.
Deboned leg of lamb cut into large chunks, grated apple, onion and garlic, soy sauce, brown sugar and sesame oil
Close up of a first year dawn redwood cutting with a number of buds turning green that will become fronds in the near future.
Clump of Snowdrops
Beef marinated in garlic and vegan oyster sauce, bean sprouts, shallots, chilli, Thai basil, flat brown rice noodles and a beef broth
Sharing platter of freshly chopped carrots, shallots, tomatoes chilli, raddish, cucumber and spring onion, to accompany Gochujang, garlic and honey glazed chicken and rice
Japanese Hamburg Steak, made with Beef and Pork mince, red onion, salt, pepper, nutmeg, panko breadcrumbs and a little milk to bind and allow shaping
Candied Citrus Peel, Glacé Cherries and Sultanas in a bowl with a generous glug of Mekhong, bottle shown behind
Mongolian chicken and lettuce on a tortilla wrap.
Spicy beef ramen in a bowl, slices of beef steak and various veg can be seen.
Japanese Larch in front of a white background. No root work required. To do: pruning.
Ladybird hiding on a flowering foxglove with white petals
Dawn Redwood fronds changing colour from green to a pinky orange before being dropped later in the season
Informal upright Itoigawa Juniper prior to today's refinement, pruning and wiring
Three 9 month old Japanese Black Pines, front left is bushy due to a cut removing the top so as to encourage new buds, back middle normal left alone, front right very small due to axis cut
A slice of the Compressed Apple Terrine with a couple of small scoops of vanilla ice cream
Freshly potted Dawn Redwood cuttings grown in water until roots grew to longer than 1cm in length
One green Tomatillo, not large but nice green colouring
Menu and counter at the Dusty Apron, I was trying to work my way through the menu but got stuck on the Ruben and Croque.
Apples ripening on the tree
Not quite tempura battered chicken unglazed and with a Korean inspired glaze and experiment with courgette battons and stir-fried veg
Close up of Zinnia flower with orange petals looking more red with a sheltering Silver Y moth
Salt and pepper chicken in blue bowl on left, chicken, cornflour, ground pepper, salt, five spice, sugar, water, garlic, chilli and spring onion. Simple noodle dish in white bowl on right containing onion, carrot, mange tout, bean sprouts, spring onion, small amount of garlic, ginger and chilli, wholewheat noodles, sesame oil, Mirin(out of cooking wine) and soy sauce.
Freshly picked blackcurrants in a box in front of blackcurrant bush
Sharing plate of sticky rice, sticky ginger chicken and pak choi with sliced red chilli scattered over.
Jersey Tiger Moth on fingers, removed from the netting, it would probably have been alright if left on its own, safely released
Blackcurrants are ripe enough for picking
A pink Zinnia fully opened
Juvenile Robin eating a centipede
Close up of a Meadow Brown Butterfly on grass
My tallest sunflower over 8ft tall, in the process of opening with trees and grey sky behind it
Largish strawberry grown under netting, Strawberry patch in background
Young Robin under a Maple bonsai and surrounded by junipers and a spruce
Tonkatsu(pork loin in panko fried) with a curry sauce on a bed of shredded cabbage and brown rice
Six month old Liquid Amber seedlings in black pots, two large individually potted in the centre, left side 3 smaller examples in one pot and right side individually potted but twisted
Close up of a newly opened sunflower, greenhouse and trees in background
Wood pigeon in apple tree, left wing hanging down and not tucked in as it would normally be, unknown how it hurt itself
5 Dawn Redwood bonsai in a group planting before thinning in front of a shed door