Suddenly, the countryside has come alive with blossom. I took these in our garden last weekend after a rather rainy day where we drove over the moors and down to the beach before retiring to home for tea, biscuits and a relaxing evening spent reading and blogging and sitting cosily in the kitchen with my husband.

The verges and hedges are full of greeness, wild flowers and new shoots. The whole place has been carpeted with soft green verdent grass. Birds are nesting and the air has a new found warmth to it. Flocks of dandilions appeared as if from nowhere. Exmoor really is beautiful.

Next weekend we plan to go foraging and see what we can find in the countryside that we can eat. There are vast banks of wild garlic and we intend to make wild garlic pesto to eat with baked fish. I also want to try cooking with nettles. Last year we made elderflower cordial from the elderflower blossoms in our garden. Now we have moved we don’t have elderflower in the garden so we will have to try and find one somewhere else.

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{All photos from author’s personal collection}