Spring has sprung!

I woke up to three magpies cawing at my window- I think that`s lucky. Three for a girl, which sounds like a lot of hocum but they were accompanied by the sun and the bluest of skies so I`m a happy girl. After an unconventional breakfast of flatbreads  with chicken tikka  we bounced down to a bustling Kendal to put that all important bet on the National. No luck this year but I made a lovely log fire and we pretended we were there eating cucumber sandwiches me drinking pink fizz and the girls were on the lemonade. A great result for Yorkshire , what a magnificent race.
Then a hike up Kendal Fell to watch the sun go down. A bottle of Mateus rose in my back pack made the walk a little kinder and a run down the hill avoiding all the golfers and dog walkers made us hungry.We filled my bag with sticks to rekindle the fire on our return and shortly we will be having a yummy lamb curry. If Spring has sprung I am relieved, happiness rests on little things- emptying the shopping from the car when there is no rain, hanging school uniforms on the line to be air dried by the sweet kendal sun, walks after work helps you reclaim your day for you and makes you sleep more soundly. Little flowers and buds and blossom just dress our world appropriately for the season, snow is pretty when it`s snowing but the slush is so tiresome when it`s going. I for one prefer the gentle rays of Springtime, and all the new life that springs up out of nowhere like a dream.
I just want to be outside drinking gorgeous wine , drinking in the sun and feeling peaceful and optimistic that we have made it through another finger stinging Winter and a new season of wild swimming and wild times await. I love Winter too but onesies are so unnattractive, bring on the sunshine. I  have also bought a disco ball for my kitchen , parties are in order. my birthday next hoorah. Cinderella was a schmuck let`s all have a ball!

Lamb curry (let`s turn on the disco ball)

The remainders of a leg of lamb, garlic and rosemary studded
Leeks and onions sliced
4 cloves garlic
1 tbs butter
1/2 tbs king naga chilli paste
1 carton of passata
1 carton single cream
1 tbs hot curry powder
1tbs peanut butter
1 bunch coriander chopped
2 potatoes diced
2tbs red lentils

Fry the lentils and garlic in the butter and add the potatoes and curry powder. Add the onions and leek and chilli paste and then stir in the lamb, passata and cream, then add the peanut butter and simmer until heated through and the potatoes are cooked and the lentils are dhaal like. Top with the chopped coriander and serve with a peshwari naan and a side dish of creamed spinach (1 bag of spinach wilted in a tbs of butter with small pot of cream, nutmeg and black pepper twist) and a glass slipper of something fizzy(Stella will do this cinders isn`t fussy!)