Okay, okay . .

This is not a political blog, but sometimes a girl just has to make a stand. All I'll do is tell you to go surfing for sarah palin and dead wolves, as I don't want to sully this lovely blog with the actual pics.

What really got me was her office and the poor dead bear, or her parents sitting in a room full of dead animal skins, and not a book in sight. I think a wall of books is a lovely thing to glimpse when you are walking in a street at night and see into someone's house. I am all for rednecks. We are all rednecks here, but we are nice gentle ones I think. Perhaps rabbit pie is the most violent thing that happens around here. I don't know why I went surfing for the nightmare woman, just after coming in with elderberries and damsons and logs and sweet peas. I'm still sitting here in cold, sopping socks.

Lovely picture of elderberries from Jonathunder at Wikimedia.
Thanks so much for it.

Every time I pulled off a bunch of elderberries I thought, "That's another day when I won't get a cold this winter" -- as I am going to make elderberry cordial.

I'm also going to make damson cheese and found the recipe, of course, at the wonderful Cottage Smallholder site, together with another lovely local blog, v8villager, which I will now make a link to.