I do like it when, in doing housework or gardening, I can see where I’ve been. Last weekend, I weeded until my legs went wobbly, and you could *definitely* see where I’d been.
Rescuing beans…
and after…
And this is the same area I showed you a week or so ago, before…
and after…
I know it’s not perfect, and [...]
The veggie patch has gone “a bit organic”. I was away for a couple of days during which it rained quite a lot. Whereas previously I was largely on top of the weeding, albeit in a fairly non-no-tolerance manner, when I checked on my return, this had happened…
There is still discernable lettuce action and the [...]
A lack of lemons, and repeated forgetting to acquire some, has led to us missing the Elderflower champagne season this year. I’m quite peeved about it, really, in spite of it basically being my fault, as last year the crop was so successful I intended to brew up at least twice as much of the [...]
So, after the gardening mentalness on Sunday, I couldn’t bend down on Monday, so went for a bank holiday cook-a-thon, which involves a lot less bending down than doing over the veggie patch did.
So, I’m left with a big pile of rhubarb.
I only have one jar of R&Ginger jam left, and I’ve started that one. [...]
Having done a few odd jobs this morning like mend the Dyson, unpack the dishwasher, eat breakfast, ignore the ironing, look helplessly at the woodpile which needs chopping & moving, I decided to bite the bullet and tackle the veggie patch.
The dwarf beans were starting to look a bit leggy, and the courgettes were [...]
Joel, when he got up on Sunday morning, decided that today was a baking day. I couldn’t think of a good reason not to, so we did.
Here Joel is explaining to Daddy (who’s off camera, having not long got up. I thought, for the general ambience of The Blog, it was best to leave it [...]
Seeds update.
The tomatoes have gone all pear-shaped. Thinning them out is no longer an issue. This makes me really really very sad. Mainly because Joel eats tomatoes like there’s no tomorrow.
In other, more uplifting news, we now have at least 5 live chilli plants:
And the observant among you will have spotted that I mixed up [...]
Regular readers know I recently lost my Gardening Expert. @antikaggs recently asked if I’d good my seeds in, in an attempt to step into the breach – so here’s a detailed update.
There are no new seeds in the ground, although I fully expect potatoes to appear at some point. In the pots shown above there [...]
Some time ago, before Our Bereavement, we were offered a second hand carpet from one of Steve’s cousins. They have a long/wide living room in which a coal spontaneously leapt off the grate & made a mark in the middle of the room, right where everyone looks the minute they walk through the door. Joel’s [...]
This weekend I appear to have been on fire. In a good way. Lily has been bugging me for a while now to cook stuff out of her Usborne Big Book Of Things To Do. So I planned ahead (& everything) and made sure we had ingredients in for making peppermint daisies (please see page [...]
