Enjoying other people's creative efforts

1. I go to the Farndale Show and look at the variety of objects on show: cakes, biscuits, elderberry wine, knitted cardigans, patchwork quilts, decorated wellies, photographs with captions, enormous parsnips, ears of corn, bales of hay... not to mention small children dressed as pirates, cowboys and flowers.

2. The fields in the valley are striped by harvesters and edged by dry stone walls, each stone placed with care.

3. The hedgerows are full of ripening berries - I think about making jams and cordials, sloe gin and damson vodka. When I get home I make toast and spread it with the organic damson jam my sister gave me.