Does this remind you of That’s Life with Esther Rantzen?

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Warning***rude vegetables in this post (and I’m not talking about the cucumbers)

  • Lemme out!
  • Coming out to play
  • Where can I go?
  • That’s enough exercise
  • Ahhh, a hammock for a bed, bliss
  • Needy Blonde photobombs again
A day in the life of Margo the ferret

I don’t think I have introduced you to Margo the ferret. She likes to come out and have a mad half hour running about like an animated draught excluder, all the while making “puppuppuppuppupp” sounds. She was after my beer, sorry Margo, it was low alcohol. No photos of this, I couldn’t take photos and save my drink, even if it was 0%.

MIL-lie and her knitting samples

MIL-lie came to see us this weekend. She brought her knitting to show us. There were all sorts of hats, cardi’s, jumpers and pram covers. We think we should set up an arts and crafts shop and sell the wares. I’m sure these lovely knitted items would be popular. She stayed for dinner so EB made roast chicken. There were home grown peas and carrots to go with it. GSS made Yorkshire puddings which rose perfectly. He learned that from his gran, GSM. The dinner was delicious. I needed a lie down after.

  • Glad to see the gladioli
  • Picking peas for dinner
  • More peas
  • The soft fruit patch
  • the vegetable patch
  • The pear tree
  • Beetroot
  • The pears look good
How does our garden grow?

The vegetable patch is doing better now it’s stopped raining. GSS and GSM pick the pods and eat most of the peas before they get to the pan. But there are plenty. We cooked some beetroot in the oven and had it cold today. The apples are really small and have black spots, it might have been too much rain and the cool summer, they looked ok a few weeks ago. The pears seem ok. I can’t wait for the potatoes to be ready, then I won’t have to pay a fortune for plastic wrapped produce at the local supermarket.

I promised some rudeness in this post, if you are easily upset, look away now…

  • Mutant tomato
  • Is that a truncheon?
  • OOO-er missus
Misshapen veggies, the joke never gets old

Seriously, though, we’ve had about 5lbs of tomatoes of various sizes and colours, and 6 cucumbers. The pumpkins are doing well, hopefully they will be full grown for Hallowe’en.

I’ll leave off with pictures of the garden. The bees are working overtime in the flowers as they need to have honey by the end of August. I’m looking forward to EB showing us how you get honey from the hives.

All good for bees and butterflies

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