Fun in the Sun at Embercombe
April 4th, 2009
Dipping salad, the best way to taste it (the train was moving too fast so all the pics are blurry)
After a weekend of sea breezes and sleepy sunshine we dinned on fresh leaves tasting of wasabi, mustard and butter, dipped in a jar of salad dressing and buttered wholemeal bread with fresh eggs filled with velvet yellow yolks.
I had been visiting a place called Embercombe, it is a community… maybe… a farm… sort of … a place to learn about the land, yep that’s it. It’s in the rolling hills outside of Exeter near Doddiscombsleigh (what a great name).
We spent Saturday chicken proofing the polytunnel doors and shoveling compost whilst spring showers were indecisively deciding whether or not they should rain loads or let the sun shine.
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