Alan, so sorry to hear of the loss of your wife. With that and your eye problems you have indeed been having a turbulent year. Sincere Condolences and kind thoughts for your next eye operation on Thursday.
I imagine it will be quite an exercise in discipline trying to grow for one person. One always tends to sow more to make up for seeds which don't germinate and then it's hard to throw the surplus onto the compost heap because you never know if some of the plants will get eaten by slugs or otherwise killed off, and despite having started off with a surplus you up with a frustrating deficit.
i've just passed on a year's back copies of my Kitchen Garden magazine to another person who enjoys growing her own vegs and have lined up another person after that who also lives locally to whom she will pass them on when she has finished with them so they will end up being well read and well thumbed, which is probably what a good magazine should be, as a friend passes on all his RHS magazines to me, which I then pass on' we seem to have a very efficient recycling operation.
i will be busy processing tomatoes for tomato purree for the freezer tomorrow and making a nice spiced pear in lemon/orange/cinamon syrup with some cooking windfall pears foraged earlier today. Things always taste nicer when they're free
