home alone

today i decided i'd done enough stitching

[for the time being]

on the dress that is to embellish

the cover of my next book [all being well]

so i dropped it on the pavement

sprinkled it with a bit of slosh from that bottle

[not exactly what it says on the label]

then it sat for a bit

before I added carob leaves [Ceratonia siliqua]

and a few other things

suspect the onionshells will be less fun to remove

than they were to sprinkle on

bundled it all up

and now the pot is simmering

over a gentle fire

let's give it a few days

before we have a look