The Yule episode is part of the soundtrack to my Christmas dinner prep 😋 we’re very lucky listeners 😎

They made me so happy! Thrilled to find Jenny is back, her storytelling is good for the soul ☺️

Impressive. Not at all good, but impressive nonetheless.

Little ornamental red-skinned crab apples, washed and cut to reveal their bright yellow-orange flesh, piled with small, dark-red hawthorn berries. Freshly washed and still damp, they glisten like jewels.

The apples and berries from the first picture, added to a jar with the juice and shredded zest of an orange.

Now granulated sugar has been added to the concoction.

The clip-top jar has been filled with brandy and closed to allow the fruit, zest and sugar to mingle and gradually become a delicious winter liqueur. Some of the cut apples are pressed against the sides of the jar so we see the familiar structure of this miniature fruit.

Wild foods of winter - Ornamental crab apples and hawthorn berries make a pleasantly warming winter liqueur to warm the cockles.

Frog spawn strewn over pale, finely branched lichen and green bramble leaves looking like ‘googly’ eyes.

A small pile of beetle elytra glistening with iridescent colours like oil on water, nestled between moss and lichen encrusted natural stone.

A close-up shot of a gnarled and twisted bough of ash, which has been worn smooth by the elements. This peculiar growth form is largely due to a pathogen infecting the tree.

Six, small, yellow and terracotta coloured snail shells have been smashed and left in a pile on the mulch and moss of the forest floor.

At first glance winter may seem muted and dull. Look a little closer, your curiosity will be rewarded with wonders!