Kitchen Garden Forum

Nice quiet day down here. Decided to go to the big supermarket to get those silly little things that we forget; well I forget anyway! Blimey haven't the prices risen? A lady & I started a conversation & she said her weekly shop is near £40 more now. She said they are blaming the world oil issues but was confused to how come the prices on the packet were changed so quickly..no obvious signs of the rip off of the old label but same use by date. Food for thought!

I really like these random chats I have with our older folk, they are kinda dismissed as in the way or something but nearly all the ones I meet really have their finger on pulse....(I exclude the really old guy who wandered around with his trousers falling down constantly)! Off to the plot tomorrow....hope my jeans stay up!

Rather pleasant out there today!
Hope you don’t get sunburnt, Geoff…..
Plenty of jobs to e getting on with now, Clive…..

All OK, dug out my sunhat. Lunch and dinner outside. 18.7° pretty good for up here.

At last today tempted out the Brimstone butterflies...we had seen the other hibernating types but I reckon the Brimstone was having an extra lie in...

Also 3 Red Kites up on high. They are now an almost daily sighting or at least several times weekly but 3 in one bit of sky is a new one in these parts East.

Also saw a Thruster T600N microlight..they were very popular this way on but not so frequent now but I spotted a local one freshly out of hibernation...

C.

Threw my list away when I got down to the plot as my 2 flooded beds had dried up significantly so thought I would do some work on them before we got more rain. It was only digging up the stones so I could make a deeper channel around the beds so at least have some better drainage. All the stones went back in so will see, but hope is it is deep enough to carry the water without it flowing over into the beds.

Even managed a weed of one of the asparagus beds so pretty productive overall.

Very misty this morning, but the rising sun soon burnt through and it became a lovely warm day here. I even managed to plough a little patch of land for my vegetables to grow in. As normally a devout pessimist the warmer days do make me feel a little optimistic.

Barney

Prices?
Thought we would get an ice-cream and have a stroll by river in lovely weather.

£3.25 for cone with one dollop of ice cream not even a flake!

Next time stroll minus ice cream.