A matrix of yeast and bacteria
Saturday, and raining heavily. Lorraine and I got up and started to potter about doing a few things. Steve came to the front door in waterproofs and a hat, bearing gifts as discussed at teatime in the pub yesterday. Kefir grains -- according to Wiki a symbiotic matrix of bacteria and yeasts, which is freak white alien life form that has to be fed. We fed it a bowl of milk and if left to its own devices will produce kefir drink in a few days. What with that and the mother sourdough culture that Lorraine has been growing in my study, I am beginning to wonder if I should be writing another horror story about this. Steve also brought a bag of chard, and a Mirabelle plum jam he had made. We drank coffee and shot the breeze and showed him around the place, which he liked a lot. Eventually, as he had things to do, he forged back into the rain. Lorraine and I had a quiet afternoon till, when the rain had stopped, we walked down to the sea, via The Crypt to dip in to see ...