Journey through the Seasons - Season 3 - Abundance

Edited by: Adam Bailey Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home) Podcast artwork: Karen Ingall Opening words: Sue reads Abundace by Louise Gluck Seasonal Living: Sue references to Lia Leendertz's The Almanac. You can read more about the Harvest moon here: https://bookishseasons.com/what-is-the-harvest-moon/ and about Michaelmas here: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/st-michaels-day-and-michaelmas-traditions  Recipe: Emma's Sourdough Apple Cake recipe is as follows.  For the starter: 460g plain flour, 500ml milk, 230g caster sugar, 2tsps yeast (mix in a large bowl, cover with a tea towel).  Feed on day 4 and day 9 - 120g plain flour, 225g caster sugar, 225ml milk.  Stir daily.  The starter is ready to bake with on day 10.  For the cake: take 1/4 of your starter (gift or start again with any portions you don't use to make a cake) and add to a large bowl, add 150ml sunflower oil, 2 eggs, 2 tsps vanilla extract, stir well.  Then add dry ingredients; 255g soft brown sugar, 240g plain flour, 2 heaped tsps baking powder, a little salt, a generous teaspoon of cinnamon and mix well.  Add 2 cooking apples, peeled and diced into approx 1cm squares and stir in along with an optional 100-150g raisins or sultanas.  Add to a lined tin (it'll fill a 20cm round tin), sprinkle with demerera sugar and put into an oven pre-heated to 170 degrees.  The cakes take roughly 45 minutes to cook - check, it may need a little longer, and then allow to cool in the tin before truning out and eating or storing. Self-Care: To read more about gratitude practices and gratitude in general please visit: https://grateful.org Seasonal words: Sue reads poems this month: Warm Apple Crumble by Gervase Gordon (instagram @lit\_service\_dept ), Ted Hughes' Harvest Moon and On the Hill Late at Night by Wendell Berry What's On Our Bookshelf: Sue has read Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and is currently reading Raising Hair by Chloe Dalton.  She has enjoyed the poetry collection Earth Prayers, edited by Carol Ann Duffy.  She's watching Ludwig on BBC iPlayer and has arranged a community screening of the National Emergency Briefing after attending a screening earlier in the summer.    Emma recommends the Maggie O'Farrell's (again!) new book Land, Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hessian and A Year of Nothing by Emma Gannon.  She has enjoyed the Netflix series' Little House on the Prairie and My Beautiful Career. She has been listening to the In Thin Air album from Spell Songs. Tasks: You can donate to the Macmillan coffee morning campaign here: https://donation.macmillan.org.uk Emma remebered the other person who has died: Gloria Steinham Timings: Opening words: 1.01 Abundance Chat: 08.44 Seasonal Living: 17.35 Recipe: 22.04 Self Care: 28.35 Seasonal words: 35.04 What's on our Bookshelf: 39.55 Tasks: 45.08 Farewell: 47.54