Roast Lamb in the oven! 🐑 🥕 🧅 🧈 🌿 I love roasts because the kids can help prep the veg and slather fat on the meat. Then in the oven it goes with a Meater digital thermometer (best kitchen gadget for meat lovers) for the afternoon, ready for dinner time 🍴😋. Kids are currently happily hoovering up all the onion skins they dropped on the floor.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an obsession with traditional German farmhouses. Lucky I married a German farmer (no coincidence!). I love how grand and solid they are, yet how warm and homely they feel inside. They look as though they belong to the landscape. I think my fascination began with the fairytales I read as a child, but it’s also what these houses represent. Built around family, animals, work, the seasons and the expectation that life would continue there for generations. There’s something about that sense of stability and permanence that I find so beautiful. Photos taken at the Bauernhaus-Museum in Wolfegg, where some exquisite examples of traditional farmhouses from across the region have been carefully relocated and preserved.

My husband spent the last few years planting a forest of 6,000 trees (oak, maple, chestnut, fir, cherry and larch) for our descendants. One day, long after our names have been forgotten, someone carrying our blood will stand beneath these trees, sheltered by the love of a man they never knew. “To plant a tree is to believe in tomorrow.” ❤️🌳

Kids have no concept of privacy. 😅

Saw a funny mushroom today!

First time putting out a huge bowl of sweets for Halloween. First kid that came tipped the whole thing into his bag. 😯🙈 #amateurhour

Happy Halloween // White Paper Day! 31//10//2008

Apple cider vinegar, dish soap and a cling film lid with holes. Simple but extremely effective fruit fly trap!

Trust makes life simpler. Suspicion makes it more expensive, not just financially, but in time, attention, and energy. But I'd rather risk being disappointed by someone than live as though everyone intends to disappoint me. If they disappoint me, that’s ok, it’s life, and I move on.