I forgot to blip

We had such a good night I totally forgot to take a photo so this is a bit of the leftover pudding.

I cooked and Mr C and Dennis braved the cold and damp/wet to have a walk up near Wooler. They had intended to go to the new tourist attraction Ad Gefrin, a museum and distillery but it was £25 to get in. So they drove to the site.

“In the 7th Century, the palace of King Edwin of Northumbria and his successors was at Gefrin, near Kirknewton. Bede mentions it as the spot where Bishop Paulinus baptised Christian converts in the River Glen in 627 AD. No one knew its exact location until 1949, when an archaeology professor taking aerial photos spotted crop marks.

Excavations in the 1950s and 1960s revealed a huge complex of great timber halls of more than 26 metres in length. There were kitchens, a timber grandstand, a weaving shed and a ‘Great Enclosure’ to pen in cattle or horses. Look out for the monument on the northern side of the Wooler to Kirknewton road.” All there is to see us the monument now.

Katy, Colin and Chris came to eat. I made a curried veg soup with lentils and aduki beans, a one dish thing of roast garlic potatoes, tomatoes, olives, capers and salmon followed by panettone bread and butter pudding with marmalade, plus oranges and rhubarb - the photo. It was much nicer than it looks.