...to this!
I went to my allotment for the first time in a couple of weeks to find a veritable bounty of goods to harvest. Unfortunately (!) I forgot to take my camera so I can't show you how healthy the weeds are, but here are some more photos of the crop. The round yellow things are cucumbers (Crystal Apple) and the cream gourd-like things are courgettes (Custard White). I love being able to grow things you can't get in Sainsburys. The courgettes may go into Zucchini Bread (something I had in Canada that I haven't found here). I even picked a handful of strawberries - unheard of for October.
That carrot is the only one we got this year and I have tended it carefully all Summer! The weather has been so awful that the seeds just rotted or got washed away. I do feel like a bit of a failure as I have never struggled with carrots before.
I don't have anything creative to show you (except for the soft fruit crumble, which was delish) as I have spent most of the week at school so far. I did a school visit yesterday and helped in the Reception class this morning - something I do every Tuesday. It is such good fun, although incredibly tiring - it is the first week that all children have been in full time and it was chaos!
I am now off to buy Brownie uniform for Grace - she is doing her Promise tomorrow night, and as usual I have left it to the last minute to get organised. Please keep your fingers crossed for me that the one and only shop that sells it in Cheltenham has her size, otherwise I will (rightly so) be persona non grata.
By the way, just look what the postman brought me today! Hope you are all having a good week. Thanks for stopping by...
Cathy XX