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Yes - a 747 in Asda livery. Missing it’s engines, it would appear. If they’re planning on starting a trans-Atlantic passenger service, perhaps this is how they’ll be keeping down their prices.
Ching-chink. * pats back pocket *
Excuse […]

It’s decidedly mixed news on the house. Most of it bad.
I got back there tonight - in the rain - to find that a heavy storm had knocked the potato plants flat. That’s not such a problem on the paved patio where they’re growing in dedicated potato bags, with appropriate drainage holes, but on the […]

With vegetables you get the best of both worlds. Something to eat at the end of the season and, before that, blooms as good as anything you might find in a cultivated garden.
The beans are now brightening up the patio with red flowers on the runners, and a delicate pinky purple on the French. The […]

I discovered tonight that there is something quite satisfying about writing on walls. Particularly in pencil.
The bathroom should have disappeared by this time tomorrow night as the great renovation continues. With any luck there will be new carpets in four rooms, the lounge will have been dug up to replace the gas piping and the […]

Very exciting. We haven’t had any new home-grown arrivals in the greenhouse since the beans poked through the tops of their pots (and they’re going on for seven feet tall now and showing no signs of slowing down).
So it was good to see that the two strawberry runners I’d poked into some pots of compost […]

Predictions of rain and foul weather proved to have been overblown this weekend, so after yet another trip to buy paint, lights, curtain poles and all those sundries of house-moving that so readily suck up your resources, we set out to enjoy the sun.
At weekends we mostly spend our time walking and taking photos, but […]

Mixed news from the plot today. We harvested and ate the first tiny crop of strawberries on Saturday; they were juicy and so full of flavour that they made the shop-bought ones we had yesterday taste watery by comparison.
And good news on the patio this morning, as the first dozen of so flowers have started […]

Walton Pier, in the fog
It’s been a weekend of contrasts, if nothing else. It started in Chelmsford in glorious sunshine, and after picking strawberries from the garden we jumped in the car and buzzed down to Frinton, getting stuck in the inevitable jam just as we turned off the A12.
Windows down, blowers on to cool […]

Not enough for jam yet. Or even a yoghurt, but my first crop of strawberries is ripening up at quite a rate.