 Enviromesh and Mushroom Crates to discourage Brush from rummaging! 3 August 2025 (Sunday) It's Sunday afternoon, and I finally feel as though I've got a little bit of time to myself to sit down and put some words to paper or combat as I've said before, fingers to keys... though in reality much of what I write I actually dictate into my phone first, and then sit down at my keyboard at my desk and check through and amend, and hopefully make better. Some of you have said in your responses and comments to my writing that it feels as if we’re sitting in a room together and chatting away, and maybe this is why it feels that way because much of what I do right is either dictated or comes from my head in terms of how I usually talk. Anyway… The week has been another busy one, though it's also being productive in very many ways; when editing A Week at the Plot I was really surprised by just how much had gotten done at the plot, on top of all that happened elsewhere... Towards the end of the week, and particularly on Friday morning I was really feeling that my mojo for the plot was beginning to escape from me. I think it's down to the fact that our lives are actually rather busy, and also that a good chunk of my head space is elsewhere; 40 miles away in Surrey at For Earth’s Sake and the Great Green Barn. I might only visit once a week or once a fortnight, though my job is to ensure that things always go smoothly for both organisations, and there's an awful lot that falls on my shoulders which is absolutely fine because that is what I’m paid by Vanessa to do.
This week, having had a day on Monday of doing stuff at the plot, and particularly in harvesting Anya first early potatoes (albeit I was harvesting them rather late!), which I couldn't remember the name of, and Tuesday being very very much a desk day as Monday morning was for me, I was down at For Earth’s Sake and the Great Green Barn on Wednesday to do what I normally do. Any day down there is always full on, as there’s always a lot to get through, and this week, despite the rather relentless and never ending roadworks of the A3 and M25, turned out to be a pretty positive and productive day. A person who used to volunteer in the shop quite a few years ago has recently moved, with his wife, to the house next door to For Earth’s Sake and they’ve decided that they’d like to both volunteer time in the shop. It's been mutually agreed that they’ll do Wednesday, which is a particularly busy day in the shop, not necessarily because of customers but because it's the first day of the week the shop is open, and much stock arrives on Tuesday and Wednesday and that all needs to be checked and put out into the shop on Wednesday morning. Also, the organic fruit and veg, usually ordered on a Monday or Tuesday, will also arrive on Wednesday morning so that all needs to be checked, sorted and then put on display. With dispensable items, if stock’s been low and we have a delivery of 20Kg of this or 12.67Kg of that, then the big dispensers need to be checked, and topped up - and some of these bags can be quite heavy and not easily manhandled! Now the stock is basically controlled both visually and online, with me doing the online bit. We’ve only been keep stock levels electronically for the past six months… which I know sounds a bit odd, but time did not allow previously. As we get deliveries, I check online to ensure that what’s arrived is what we’ve ordered, doing so from the supplier’s online docket for the delivery, and I add to the stock level accordingly. When we started doing this many dispensers already had the produce in them, so we had to guess the weight - as time’s gone by the online stock check is getting more and more accurate as if we run out of an item completely, and then by 20 kilos of it, we know that we have 20 kilos of stock. As things get scanned through the till, the weight of dispensable items is taken off the amount of stock that we have, so basically our online stock is pretty accurate now… which is a boon! Anyway, we now have two additional volunteers on a Wednesday, and that will help an awful lot. It was also lovely to meet the two of them, one of whom I had met once before… and I have to say that both were excellent and by the end of the day the shop was in an even better condition than it was at the beginning of sales at 9:30! In the afternoon, with the shop and its customers being taken care of, Vanessa and I were able to sit down and plan things for events happening at the Great Green Barn, particularly the theatre and shows and crafting that we are presenting ourselves, and we also talked to Nik about the work that’s planned to be done during the two-week break that For Earth’s Sake has coming up. The three of us then went over to look at the parking area outside of the shop - it acts as parking for both the shop and the barn, and it can often look rather untidy. Plans and timelines have now been set to determine better use of the space and more ‘hidden’ storage options, as we have a hope that by next year we’ll have a dedicated area next to the shop that will be a really lovely area to sit down and have coffee, tea and cake and possibly some hot snacks as well. The thing with For Earth’s Sake and the Great Green Barn is that there's always new ideas coming along, and that's fine and dandy by me. I do find that a day down at Vanessa is very tiring - early morning start, longish drive down, full on long day of working, longish drive back - and the following day I'm usually feeling a little exhausted and lacklustre. However, this week it also fed into me being a little down about the work that was needed at the plot… and when I went down on Thursday afternoon to do things, the humidity was so high that I just felt exhausted and came back home, determined to go down on Friday and really get my act together. However, on Friday morning I just didn't feel like doing anything, and when I say I didn't feel like doing anything I don't mean that there was nothing to do and I didn't do anything, what I mean is I didn't feel like doing the extra things that I needed to do at the plot… but down I went, and with a good bit of seed sowing and a few harvests under my belt, by the end of two or three hours down there I felt that I’d draw my mojo back in… Yay!! Saturday saw me down at the plot again, having recorded Sunday Chat in the morning. I was determined to sow two types of carrot in a raised bed where I’d harvested the potatoes earlier in the week. The bed had been well forked over in the proceeding days, and raked level, though Brush, our resident fox who I've only actually seen once this year, always likes a fresh made bed and he’d obviously decided to give it a little bit of a grubbing up - divots in two areas and paw prints all over - maybe he had been dancing with a lady friend under the moonlit sky?  Cinquefoil - or Potentilla reptans, though my common name 'Pain in the Arse' is more apt! So, this meant that my first job Saturday afternoon was to use my rake to level things off again before I could put in the drills and sow the seeds of the Amsterdam Forcing and Autumn King carrots. I knew that I'd have to tackle the Cinquefoil, the bain of my life on the plot, though with a storm on the way, Storm Floris, I thought I'd get on with this job next week rather than this weekend… though when I got down this morning, Sunday, I started on the Cinquefoil. It really is such a pernicious weed, and I would MUCH rather have bindweed or couch grass any day. It's a relation to the strawberry, being a Potentilla, and it sends out a significant number of runners which can root at every single node. Its botanical name is Potentilla reptans, and despite having a lovely flower the common name I have for it is ‘Pain in the Arse’. On my kneeler, with fork in hand and obviously gloves on, over a two-hour period I pulled out 16 kilograms of this pernicious weed; plant, deep roots and runners. All came home with me in a black sack and was emptied into our green waste bin which will be collected tomorrow morning by the council - and good riddance to that lot… only about another tonne to go! Back home and Richard was making lunch - our first home-grown (well, allotment grown!) Cheese & Tomato on toast… OMG… it was delicious!!! It will be a little segment in Richard’s vlog so please look out for that as the lusciouness was eaten rather swiftly, with no photo by me or Richard taken - though Richard did do a little video! It’s now mid-afternoon on Sunday, and I'm looking over the books that I've read over the past few weeks and the one that I've just started yesterday. I've just finished Felicity Cloake’s One More Croissant for the Road which the fabulous Vivi gave me well over a year ago. It's a book that is broken up into chapters of the different legs of Felicity’s cycling journey through France, tasting the gastronomy as she went village by village, town by town and city by city. Because of this, it's been a book which has been on my bedside for quite a while, and when I finish one of my thriller or murder mystery books, I then pick it up and read a few chapters before diving into a new book of my usual genre… and then picking it up again once I finish that book, and on and on… Now, with Felicity Cloake over the line and back in Paris, the book is finished. I have to say I’ve rather enjoyed reading it. I'm not a great fan of all travelogues, though I do like ones that grab me. Having read further investigations by The Observer I remember that The Salt Path did so when I started reading it, though after maybe 20, or 30, or 40 pages, maybe even 50 pages I began to feel that it was a bit too victim-based for me. In my life, when times have been tough, I've often found that people have been extremely helpful and welcoming and happy to give advice and assistance where needed or asked for… with Raynor and Moth, they seemed to have a very different journey… Anyway, I do highly recommend Felicity Cloake’s One More Croissant for the Road as it's informative, fun, and talks a lot about food, AND has recipes - what’s not to like!!! My new book’s by Lucy Foley, of which I've read three of her other books. This one’s called The Midnight Feast, and so far I'm only a few chapters in… and absolutely loving it!!
Weather: It feels as though summer’s come to an end… Today there are a few sunny spells though it’s largely overcast, a few light rainshowers, and quite a breeze. Storm Floris is on its way!! Breakfast: All Bran, Yogurt and a little oat milk Lunch: Cheese & Allotment Grown Tomatoes on Toast - YUM!!! Supper: Microwave Tomato Sauce with Penne & Salad - recipe to come!!!
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 15 June 2025 (Sunday)
A bit of a funny Sunday as we’d yet to record Sunday Chat, which we did late morning, though before that Richard fancied a cooked breakfast - he pulled out almost all the stops and did an absolute banger of one! The sausages were Lidl’s Vemondo Cumberland Veggie ones, and there was also grilled tomatoes, pitta, scrambled eggs and baked beans - If we’d had mushrooms, they would have been on the plate too! It was bloody delish, and set us up for the day! I finished editing A Week at the Plot, after breakfast, then we recorded Sunday Chat quite late in the morning. After having a big breakfast, there was little need for lunch other than a mid-afternoon snack, so after a little house-keeping at my desk I went to the plot to water and do a few jobs. A relatively relaxing afternoon, including for me a bath, and then Richard decided he’d make his Quick Soya Burgers for supper, and I said we had two baps we could use for them, and I made a salad. We watched an intriguing programme on how organs (the instrument kind!) are being lost throughout the UK - with them either being saved (and most going to France) or just dumped… Organ Stops: Saving the King of Instruments, it’s well worth a watch. Then we dived into Happy Families, though Richard fell asleep halfway through episode 5 so I pressed Stop, and we’ll pick up on it tomorrow. Instead, I watched half an episode of Endeavour, which I’m again working my way through… it must be about the sixth time! Undoubtedly there will be a seventh time… and an eighth… and a ninth… Weather: Cooler than yesterday by about 6°, though still warm in the sun. Breakfast: Richard’s Cooked Veggie Breakfast Lunch: Rice cake, yeast extract and peanut butter Supper: Quick Soya Burger in a Bap, lettuce and mixed salad of olives, cucumber, red onion and tomato  I woke at 3am and just couldn’t get back to sleep - having heard five bongs I didn’t then hear a single bong so I must have been back to sleep sometime between 5am and 5.29am…
Awoke again just before 7am, with Richard bringing me a cup of tea soon after, and then getting to my desk to upload the last four days worth of my bleatings to this blog. We’ve Gerald Dickens this evening at the Great Green Barn, and I’m surprisingly anxious, and just don’t know why… I guess it's been a busy few weeks and there's been an awful lot going on. My morning is spent at the allotment, and then back at home for a bath and lunch. I put the hot tap of the bath on and get some meat-free sausage rolls from the freezer and into our pre-heated combi-oven they go; they’ll be cooked by the time I’ve had my bath. Richard's already had a bath and his ablutions are all done and dusted, so once we've had lunch and got some water for the journey and Richard had got all his camera stuff, it was off down to the Great Green Barn. There was a big diversion on the way, though we were only diverted to a way that I've been before, and we arrived shortly after 4:30 to set up the bar and get the venue ready for opening doors just before 7pm. Gerald was doing two of his shows, the first being called Mr Dickens is Coming! and is really a celebration of various of the characters and books that Charles Dickens created. After an interval the second show was Doctor Marigold, a Charles Dickens piece which is a really touching and lovely story of a traveling salesman and the relationships that he has through his life. To say I shed a tear at the end would be completely true. The appreciative audience left, many chatting with Gerald and thanking us all on their way out, and after putting various things away and getting the venue ready to close up, and with Gerald now having gone to a B&B nearby, Richard and I said goodbye to Vanessa and wended our way home; with a different diversion on the way we came in through our front door just before midnight, and just before Sunday Chat went live. Weather: Sunny from the start, and warm at around 16°. Breakfast: Bran Sticks, yogurt, and banana Lunch: Lidl Sausage Rolls (vegan) and tinned baked beans Supper: A packet of Two Farmers Garlic and Mushroom Crisps!  Modular sown well-rooted cucumbers going into the raised bed by the shed on Saturday. 16, 17 & 18 May 2025 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
I really don’t know where the last three days have gone… of course, we’ve both followed the usual routine of getting up, tea, work work for me, breakfast, work and work work for me and work for Richard, lunch, plot time, thinking about what to make for supper, more plot time, supper, TV, read, bed… not quite a merry-go-round, but also one just the same. We were hoping to get out to the Chilterns on Friday, though that didn’t happen as we had quite a few things to do and Sophie (our niece on Richard’s side) of Sophie Stock Art coming to stay overnight, and coming a few hours earlier to spend some time with us. I was at the plot when she arrived, though on coming through the door both Sophie and Richard were sitting on sofas with blankets over them… and I was hot from working in the sun! A quiet evening with lots of chat, and Richard made a delicious lentil and soya pasta sauce which was truly delish!! Saturday… our usual day for filming Sunday Chat, though as we were up VERY early at 4am as Sophie needed to get a 5.30am train into London to then get a 6.30am train from Victoria to Chichester for Goodwoof I think we were both a bit tired, which sort of comes across! Anyway, after filming I got to the plot to do a final segment of A Week at the Plot; not initially the sowing and planting out I thought I’d be doing as I needed to do some remedial work on the greenhouse! When I got down to the plot on Friday afternoon I noticed our greenhouse doors were out of kilter, jammed and akimbo, so I needed to try and sort that… which I did, somewhat! Rather Heath Robinson, must beggars can’t be choosers, and people without an engineering degree need to work it out themselves! I was back to the plot in the afternoon and got our cucumbers planted out, which is what I’d intended to do as a job for the day, and various other jobs sorted. Sunday was a somewhat quieter busy day, for me at least. I’ve been feeding and, whilst he’s been eating, injecting a neighbour’s cat with insulin morning and night for the last three days. It has to be done, and I don’t mind - the neighbour’s away and whilst I’m sharing the duty with another of our neighbour’s friends, for various reasons this weekend I’ve done morning and evening rather than just evenings. I also did quite a bit at the plot, and am thankful that the cucumbers did well overnight, with slugs and snails CURRENTLY leaving them alone. I potted on the spare cucumbers, courgette and squash I have, as I know they needed either planting out or potting on with the benefit of extra compost. There is some seed sowing to do, though that will have to wait until next week. I’d taken some smoked tofu out of the freezer this morning, intending to do something with it for supper - and it turned out to be tofu bacun wraps. Then it was the usual TV, some episodes of As Time Goes By, then something else, then bed, and a quick read before lights out. Recipe: Tofu Bacun Wraps After removing the defrosted smoked tofu from the packet I gave it a really good squeeze, gently but firmly, to extract as much liquid as I could. I then cut it into eight long slices, and marinated in this mixture: 3 tbsp Bragg’s Liquid Aminos (use others aminos or soy sauce if you don’t have Braggs) 1 tbs maple syrup 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp smoked paprika I mixed all the above together in a wide flat dish, and laid each slice of tofu into it, coating both sides as I did. I turned the tofu over several times, making sure each side of each slice was well coated. I then fried the slices for about three minutes on each side - they did not crisp up as much as I’d hoped, though as there was to be lots of crispy and crunchy things in the wrap that was fine. Into a wrap I put three washed and spun leaves of our own lettuce, cubed de-seeded cucumber, thinly sliced radish and some chunky slices of sweet long red pepper. Then went two slices of the marinated and fried tofu, and then the wrap was rolled up, folding one end in to ‘seal’ the bottom. It was all rather lovely, though next time I may coat the tofu in flour and fry that up, and add the marinade at the end, and bubble it all through. Friday 16 May Weather: Warmer and sunnier than yesterday, though VERY breezy. Around 22°. Breakfast: Bran Sticks, yogurt, sultanas and banana Lunch: Leftover Cheezy Topped Potatoes mixed with Minestrone Soup (tin) and Lidl demi-baguette Supper: Lentil & Soya Pasta Sauce a la Richard, with wholewheat spaghetti and grated cheese Saturday 17 May Weather: Sunny, and hot, though also feeling just a degree or two cooler. Breakfast Snack at 5am: Chris Sourdough, Flora ProActiv Buttery, Yeast Extract Breakfast: Bran Sticks, yogurt, sultanas and banana Lunch: Leftover Lentil & Soya Pasta Sauce with a tin of Lidl Minestrone, Lidl demi-baguette with grilled cheese Supper: Microwave Spinach Omelette, lettuce, cucumber, radish Sunday 18 May Weather: Overcast, though some sunny spells later in the afternoon. Around 20°. Breakfast: Chris Sourdough, Flora ProActiv Buttery, Yeast Extract and Peanut Butter Lunch: Homemade Hummus (defrosted), sourdough toast, radish and cherry tomatoes Supper: Smoked Tofu marinated in bacon sauce and fried, wraps with lettuce, cucumber, red pepper and radish  3 May 2025 (Saturday) Woken at about 4am by noisy people in the street, and did not get back to sleep until after 5.30am… my mind was worrying, going into ridiculously ludicrous scenarios that seemed important and relevant in the middle of the night that in the light of day show their true faces as just being ‘worry thoughts’ of a busy head… Both of us are feeling a little bit slow following a late return home last night. We recorded Sunday Chat, Richard editing it as usual soon after whilst I made some lunch. Unusually, after lunch I spoke with Vanessa which I try and want not to do on a Saturday or Sunday - however, as we didn’t have a chance yesterday to talk about ordering stock for For Earth's Sake, and with Monday being a Bank Holiday, AND me not needing nor wanting to work work that day (unless I choose to get ahead) we needed to get the Suma order done so it would arrive on Tuesday as per usual. After a delay as Vanessa needed to get to the Post Office to pay in cash taken, and a customer wanting something from Vanessa, we talked and got the order through. After this, it was time to get to the plot. There was another segment of A Week at the Plot to record, and I had no idea what it was to be… in the end it turned out to be largely me pricking out our tomatoes and potting them on so that they could grow ready to be put out in a few weeks time. Despite being slightly cooler, it was still relatively sunny and a hat I wore was really quite necessary to keep the sun off. It was really busy at the allotment, with several of my direct neighbours down at the same time and therefore a bit more chat than usual, which was fine and lovely. There was a bit of plant swapping, and offers of further swapping; on my direct neighbour’s plot there's a geranium growing in several places which I really want to remove and pot up - at least a couple for me and then maybe another two for the gate sale. The geraniums are in an area that our plot neighbour wants to clear, so there's no issue about removing it. When the plot neighbour with the geranium was about to go home, she showed me her harvest basket which was an array of colours, textures and soon to be eaten flavours. In the basket were some spring onions, which I commented on as they looked so amazing AND because I always have an issue growing them - they seem to take ages to grow and I always think something is wrong, so usually they end up being put to one side. As often happens with an allotment community, and a good community generally, three of her gorgeous spring onions ended up being gifted to me, which was lovely. What was even more lovely was being gifted the knowledge that spring onions take a while to grow; I'd always thought that because they were a relatively small onion they’d take about eight weeks, but no, they take quite a bit of time so in future I know to let them do their thing for much longer, and not give up on them! By the time I’d done my work and was wending my way home, I’d already put on a hoodie as the clouds had rolled in, the sun had disappeared and the breeze had really picked up and it was feeling rather chilly. My hat was definitely not needed on my journey home, though of course the hat came home with me as it will be needed when the sun shines brightly again. When we were at the Great Green Barn a month or so ago for The Shakespeare Solitaire, the 1920s murder mystery evening presented by the Guildford Shakespeare Company, Giorgos of The Life Goddess had made some lemon roasted potatoes, which were absolutely delicious. This evening, having discussed the recipe with him a good many weeks ago, I decided to recreate them using what I had. I used four tablespoons of lemon juice from the large bottle in my fridge rather than four lemons (which I did not have), and despite not using any herbs as I simply forgot, the dish was truly delicious, and so easy to make.
Lemon Roasted Potatoes 1kg roasting potatoes, washed and sliced into 1cm discs 4 tablespoons olive oil 4 unwaxed lemons, juices and pith removed from skins and the skins quartered 2 sprigs oregano, or three teaspoons dried oregano 1 tbsp Marigold bouillon powder or 1.5 tsp of salt Add all ingredients to a smallish baking dish, mine was 20cm by 15cm - you want the potatoes to overlap and not be in a single layer. Mix thoroughly until the potatoes are coated and pop into a preheated oven for twenty minutes. Remove the baking tray from the oven using an oven glove, give the potatoes a good stir and then pop back into the oven for a further twenty minutes until cooked through and slightly browned; the tip of a knife should have no resistance when being pushed through a slice of potato. I served the potatoes with a veggie escalope and salad, using the gifted spring onions which were delish! In fact, the whole supper worked. There’s a lot of olive oil in this recipe and some was left in the tray, so I let it cool then decanted as much as I could to a small glass jar for future use. It has a slight lemon tang and smell, so just be aware of that. The lemons, if you use real lemons and not juice like I did, are edible - some can be served along with the potatoes or when cool put in an airtight container, and place in a fridge to be used within a few days chopped up in salads to give an extra flavour sensation. Weather: Definitely slightly cooler, though still warm and sunny much of the day. By 5pm there was a chill breeze and the sun was behind clouds. Breakfast: Crumpets, ProActiv Spread and yeast extract, and some crunchy peanut butter Lunch: Mixed Veg Microwave Omelette, pitta, radish and cucumber Supper: Quorn Garlic & Mushroom Escalope, Lemon Roasted Potatoes, Lettuce, Radish, Cucumber & Spring Onion  26 April 2025 (Saturday)
We were both up early; me at my desk very early to edit together yesterday's A Week at the Plot footage and upload to Planet Vegetaria. Sunday Chat filming day, and whilst Richard started editing it together I made lunch of homemade hummus - a staple in our house which freezes REALLY well! I’ve popped my recipe below. It’s also so easy, and you can use your own cooked chickpeas instead of a tin, just ensure if they’ve been frozen they are well defrosted. After lunch, I was at the plot doing the usual watering, checking on germination, tidying and weeding… at the end of my work there, sitting on my wooden chair outside the shed and mulling wending my way home, I checked the time on my phone… 5:03pm. My eye wandered to my left, spying the overgrown flower border bed… Into the shed I went, and grabbing my kneeler, putting my gloves back on, and laying my hands on a big 30l tub, I got to work. Half an hour later the bed looked very much better - at least I can now see the plants for the weeds! LOTS of weeds still to pull, and especially sturdy roots of tufted grasses and that pernicious Cinquefoil, though I can take my time doing some each week. It will never be perfect, though in reality very, very few things ever are! Whilst cooking supper I read another chapter or two of The Beautiful Mystery. I’m now at that stage where I’m keen to finish it, though don’t want to as I’ve enjoyed reading it so much - a bit like when you meet a friend irregularly and after hours of chat you know you need to leave and make your way home, though at the same time you want to stay and chat for just that little bit longer. If youi don't know the Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series, I highly recommend them! Supper was followed by some TV, and we stayed up late, both fully engaged watching a fab series called 40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC… we watched volume two and there's volume three too, so two others to watch! Happy Days!! My Hummus Recipe I drained two cans of chickpeas very well, and added them to our food processor (keep a few tablespoons of the liquid - aquafaba - for if you want to use any later) and four cloves of garlic, roughly chopped. I actually used a block of garlic from the freezer - I heated it through in the microwave to bring it to a steam, just because I don’t like eating vegetables from the freezer without cooking them. In next, one tablespoon of Marigold bouillon powder (use a teaspoon of salt if you prefer) and five tablespoons of lemon juice (love fresh lemons, though I always have a large bottle of bought lemon juice in the fridge, which I use for this). If you like your hummus less lemony use only four, and if you like it extra lemony use six! Blitz this all up in the processor, or mash with a fork if you are doing by hand - doing this by hand you can keep this as chunky as you wish, or not, though it will never be smooth like you get in the shops. I’ve not used a stick blender for this, though I would be interested to know how it works so please let me know, or I’ll give it a go myself at some point. The fridge always has a large tub of tahini, which is sesame paste, and four generous tablespoons goes in, and I blitz again (or carry on mixing and mashing if doing by hand). Scrape down the sides of the processor bowl to ensure all is incorporated, and blitz till smooth, or until you have the texture you wish. If you like your hummus thinner, add some more lemon juice or a tablespoon or two of the drained aquafaba from the can. I portion this up into plastic Tupperware or similar and freeze; I do 150g servings for two. It will keep in the fridge happily for several days, and in the freezer for several months. In the summer if I take out a tub at breakfast it's defrosted by lunch, and I give it a good stir. In the winter it might need a quick wizz on Defrost in a microwave, or bring it out the day before and pop in the fridge to fully defrost. I don't have a photo - though when I find one or make the next batch I will add! Weather: Overcast start to the day, and remained so much of the day with the afternoon being bright and much warmer. Breakfast: Bran sticks, yogurt and sultanas Lunch: Homemade Hummus, Pitta, carrot batons, cucumber slices and a little leftover coleslaw Supper: Lidl Vegan Cumberland Sausage, roasted carrot, parsnips, onion and potato wedges with an instant onion gravy  I was up early and made tea and checked on the edit of A Week at the Plot so far, and in doing this I know what running time I’m currently up to.
Richard and I were both up and at it pretty swiftly this morning, which did for an early filming of Sunday Chat, followed by the recording of a podcast for Ko-fi members for which we'd asked subscribers for questions in advance. After lunch, I was at the plot. I’m really enjoying my time at the plot this growing season... despite this week being mainly weeding jobs of one type or another, mainly bindweed and couch grass. I really feel just where I need to be in terms of preparation and what’s been sown and is germinating. I was delighted to see further tomatoes had germinated, and all else is doing fine. I’ve also been offered some Verbena Bonariensis that's self-seeded on a fellow plotter’s plot, and a marjoram, so I’ll get those tomorrow. Very late in the afternoon I made my way home, to get in and make supper before some TV… and bed with my book! Weather: Moving between overcast and sunny, and feeling cool in the house though lovely outside in the sunshine. However, the clouds rolled in about 5pm and it felt chiller at the plot. Breakfast: Bran sticks, yogurt, sultanas and a banana Lunch: Lidl No-Steak Bake and baked beans Supper: Linda McCartney Mozzarella Burger, bough bun, homemade chips and coleslaw |
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