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Only my courgettes would like to know! They think that they are in with a chance, so there is a mad panic to flower and produce their fruit. All the while I am hanging around mostly looking hopeful and whispering words of encouragement.  But after that thunderstorm...... Lovely long green courgettes from that top one and smaller yellow courgettes from the second. And here we have one just about making it over the coldframe edge. Timing has been out this year. Who knew that Growing Veg was going to be something that I'd be doing? No I.......for certain! Lockdown started, compost had not been bought, seeds ditto........then hubby found Garden Magazines with seeds on the front. The rest is history & grubby hands. This? Well a little too late in the day celery seeds arrived. So they have been germinated, raised ( after confusing me by looking similar to coriander) and are now potted up for finishing in the greenhouse. Self blanching, so worth a try, . Having made the decision to bu...

So this is where I've been hanging out, with the plants and especially the calabrese whose germination rate has been amazing and whose leaves I am shamelessly in love with.  Plants just keep growing, irrespective of pandemic problems or society's pain. As long as they get some daylight and water + have their roots planted in something suitable, they are happy. Chard, Fordhook Giant to be precise. This will most certainly be grown again, whatever life throws at it this plant storms through. Stands there and takes it. One plant was eaten (don't plant them near shrubs....) but Still new leaves were being sent up every day! Amazing. Requires next to no attention while growing and tastes fab. It's been a while since I have planted peas, but these main crop are doing fine. No peas as yet, but the half that we crop for pea shoots are super crunchy. Most of the rest are planted up in the top corner of our garden, an area currently defended by an irate blue tit whos...

Early afternoon..... in early June. It has rained and blown all day. Have scampered across to the studio twice and nearly been blown over each time! Hopefully all the veg are OK? Certainly the size of our  kindling pile for this winter will be increasing, tomorrow maybe the weather will have blown itself out so I can pick my way around with a container and clear the garden a bit. For now though I am left with my thoughts, a large pile of assorted blue fabric pieces and plenty of time. Everything that can be machine sewn has Been machine sewn and all that  I am left with are numerous trailing ends to hand sew into place. The process of slowly ( oh sooo slowly at times!) clearing, sorting, relocating or repurposing has started again. Lockdown has meant that my shopping bag is abandoned and the afore mentioned sorting process has brought to light precious cushions made with the same fabric. Clearing a bedroom cupboard brought to light enough bits and pieces of...

Officially I am a techno phobe Is that the correct word? I m no good at tech anyway! Goodness Penninegilly finds me on Instagram, should this blog go the way of many others. So. May time and gracious everything has ramped up a gear! The garden has exploded into colour and creaking life, stems shooting heavenward and leaves waving towards the sun. Winds whistle round the garden  and the sun shines in odd places. But enough odd places for everything to be perfectly pleasant for most of the time. I m not out and about, dodgy lungs have put paid to That. So I am at perfect liberty to spend all of my days outside. And that is exactly what I am doing! When all this is either over or we have moved in an otherwise improbable manner into a more sociable situation,  I shall Miss this time. So for now For me I am making the very most of it And one day I might work out how this place works, coz blowed if I can work out how to upload images an...

Well, going from having kids around the place , to having No kids around the place ....although technically  they were adults, but hey......was a big change. But we always had the pets. One move Then we didn't have a cat Second move Then we didn't have the dog Mercifully both pets Really got to enjoy their last homes though. So now I have plants instead, coz right now neither of us can contemplate another pet. Apart from this bloomin thing afflicting the world ..... life is chugging on.  Mostly blue skies.  Glorious home n garden. Birds going crazy outside. No one going crazy inside. Lots of interesting cooking n baking. Greenhouse. Sheds. Stuff to do, (lots of stuff to do, let's not go there!). Getting to grips with fruit n veg delivery. So, what do I actually miss with all this social distancing? Casual conversations.  Intentional catch ups. Spending time with family n friends. Church services, mostly because the people there a...

.....we are a household with no pets. Beloved dog reached the end of his life this week. Beloved cat ....last year. ‘Tis true that we have fish, so strictly speaking we have pets. But no way am I going to attempt Cuddling Fish, not at my place and not in theirs either. We’re not going to hurry into pet ownership.... but by heck it isn’t half quiet now....... . . . .

An inordinate amount of time is spent staring at the sky these days. Blue, golden, peach, yellow....bespeckled by scudding clouds or draped by billowing pillows....all perfectly provided for us to stand or sit still and just gaze. Awesome is not too grand a word and that image is merely a badly taken reminder of last night. Not in Any way an unusual occurrence either. Having a regular light show most evenings is very freeing. Waking to a much shorter yellowish display in the morning is equally joyful. Colour. Skies. Our washing dries so quickly. The sky usually is clear. Have we landed in a kinda utopia? . . . .