Experiment, week 22. Continuing the experiment here are this week’s five things which have made me happy or for which I’m grateful.

1. English Asparagus. Following straight on from last week, this week Waitrose had the first English asparagus. What a lovely addition to a salad on Friday evening; lightly steamed it was succulent and with gorgeous flavour. Hope fully there will be lots more before the end of the (all too short) season.
2. Cold Roast Turkey. Last weekend Noreen bought what Waitrose describe as a Turkey Crown Roast. Now “crown roast” to me implies that it’s boned and stuffed but this was just the front half of a turkey, sealed in a roasting bag. It wasn’t cheap, but it was delicious. It was good as hot Sunday roast (the bag method worked extremely well) but even better cold, with a surprising amount of flavour. And we got enough meals from it that it didn’t turn out that expensive after all. (And no sign of the dreaded Turkey Curry either!)
3. Apple Blossom. The first of the apple blossom is out: our ornamental crab apple tree is in flower. I love apple blossom especially as the buds are just breaking and have that delightful pink blush.



4. Orchids. The orchid my mother gave me is continuing to flower! And we spotted another nice one (above) this week in Waitrose, so now there are two!
5. Sunshine. Finally for this week let’s have some more sunshine. It’s been a dull grey, intermittently wet, week. But yesterday and today we’re having some beautiful sunny periods. I feel so much better when the sun is out!