Encaustic tile

A gorgeous day - pulled up the last of the garlic then dug over the beds and sowed some with green manure - Hungarian rye if anyone's interested. You let it grow then dig it in in early spring and it adds all sorts of nutrients to the soil.

Then I went off to Bantry where a series of walks are taking place over the week, as it's Heritage Week. I joined a select group for an ecclesiastical tour of the town. It has an interesting mixture of catholic, Protestant and Methodist churches and we went in each. The highlight was a mosey around a very old graveyard which is normally kept locked. The tour lady didn't think we should go in as it was very overgrown but she revealed that she had the key and was over-ruled - mainly by me! The graveyard dates from the mid-18C but is interesting in that both catholic and protestants were buried there, and it's the resting place of the Earls of Bantry. Interesting too to compare the RC and Cof I churches. We were shown photos of the RC in its original Gothic splendour, which has sadly been painted over. Some nice stained glass though. I loved these little encaustic tiles though and they are in the Cof I church which has also had everything whitewashed and 'modernised' but these have escaped. Gorgeous colours, I always wanted a hall with these in.

Just cooking roast veg and basmati rice - all veg from the garden. Will be back shortly to browse.