We have a cool autumn, sunny day here today. It is really lovely but I was so tired from the week I just had a sleep for awhile. Now I am in my comfy reading chair with a hot cup of tea thinking of you all. 🙂🌻
Fridays are usually my rest day. We had lunch yesterday at a restaurant with a couple of old friends. We hadn’t seen them for awhile but one of them is in his 80s and quite severely hearing impaired as is Mr P. The conversation was quite funny as one hearing impaired asked a question to the other hearing impaired and both partners had to repeat what was said and then they would answer and again the partners would repeat. It could have been one of those old British sitcoms that make people laugh so much. Fortunately I had my hearing aids in and the partner of the other older friend is younger and can hear!! Old age is such an adventure. Things happen you never thought about before.
But let’s get on with the book I bought a couple of weeks ago. I came across it accidentally on a table while going into the local second hand book shop Cracked and Spineless. I was asking Richard, who owns the shop if he had any Muriel Spark books. I did find one but will save that for later. He also sells new books too. He has a real following of both university students and older adults, like us. He is known for getting some really quirky books in.
What is this new book you ask?
The book is full of gravestone photographs. Now, photographers get photos of all kinds of themed ideas. This one is gravestones. There isn’t much new with that idea but these are gravestones with recipes on them. Little old ladies who passed away and are remembered for their wicked biscuits (cookies to you N Americans), pies or cakes, etc.
The entire recipe is carved into the marble of the gravestone. This book is full of gravestones with lovely old recipes on it.
As I have several days at home over Easter weekend I was thinking I might pick one and bake it and see if it is as good as it sounds. Though I am trying to lose a couple of kilos I could still make something and train myself not to eat it all at once.
There are also stories of some of the women who baked these delights.
I have included a couple of the illustrations. I might also take my camera and find some local gravestones and see if I can find something unusual to photograph. I think these recipe stones are probably in North America. I haven’t had chance to really read through it all yet but plan to now I am not quite as busy for a few days and feel more rested.
Have any of you ever seen something special on a gravestone? If I do get out and get some gravestone photos I’ll post them up at a future date. I’ll also share what I bake from the book. In the meantime. Enjoy the photos.
Have you ever seen an interesting epitaph on a gravestone?
Travellin' Penguin 
Good heavens, I have never imagined such a thing but what a lovely idea! Just reading the ones you’ve shared gives you a sense of the woman and the family that loved her.
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen such interesting and personalised gravestones, but the ones I remember vividly were on Stradbroke Island which I visited in the 1980s with a dear friend who lived in Brisbane. There must have been an epidemic of some sort and there were gravestones there with entire families, from parents to babes in arms. Very moving to see.
Do let me know if you succeed with a technique for not eating something all at once. I could use it myself when it comes to chocolate….
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