In the 'old' days, when she was gainfully employed and spent many hours a week 'on the road' going to and from clients or the restoration workshops, she had a wonderful driver called Dean.
He would drop her at one place and whilst she was doing whatever she had to do there, he would zoom off somewhere else collecting or delivering items. They used to travel far afield these two and, most days, I went with them in my large travelling cage.
But those days are long gone and so it must be at least six months since they last met.
He is an incredibly nice and very kind man and when he heard that her shed had been so very badly vandalised the last time, he was furious and telephoned to say that he'd be picking her up and they were going to B&Q to get the necessary things and he would mend it for her!
Hello!
How nice and kind was that! And not a penny would he accept. Such a thoughtful gesture.
And so this Tale is to tell you how Miss Fig and Miss Cherry both travelled in great style out to the allotment today, plus the eight buckets of soil, placed into huge plastic sacks, went whoosh.. all in one fell swoop.. into the back of Dean's pristine car and off they went, bumpy-bump off down the windy-wobbly track to the plots.
She decided, when Dean arrived this afternoon on the dot of two of the afternoon clock, to take Miss Sunburst Cherry out to the allotment as well. She was not really very happy in that pot by the front door, it was too small and she will be planted in the long bed on the other side of the main walk-way fence.
With her are several roses and lots of tall red and scarlet flowers, well, they're supposed to be there, their leaves all came up but not one flower has yet to be seen.. huh.. their days are numbered, that's for sure!
Nothing get's to stay living in that garden unless it produces something! And just leaves of flowers are not enough!
As it is at least ten days since she was last there and the weather has been mighty hot with very little rain, she was convinced that the two baby pepper plants and the two equally small courgette / zucchini plants would be dead. It was a nice surprise to see that everyone was alive and, in fact, doing very well!
Maybe our kind plot neighbour, Andrew, took pity on them and has given them the odd bucket or two of water? She will ask him if he is around this week end.
She came home with a bag of the tiniest Broad (Fava) and Dwarf French beans, just how we like them and masses of Peas and Mange-Tout
But the best thing were the first row of Charlotte Potatoes which she dug up. Oh.. heavens to Betsy.. She had them for supper tonight with Johanna's Hot Potato Sauce, oh, slurp-the-durp.
There is lots and lots of work to do, there are lots of plums ripening, she has to finish the summer pruning of the apple and pear trees and to go back and do a bit more on the Morello cherry tree.
Plus she has to pick the Lavender! Which is out-doing itself this year! Dark and very deliciously smelly! Picked and plaited whilst the stems are pliable, they are pretty gifts and make your cupboards and drawers smell wonderful, plus the moths hate the smell, which is an added bonus!
Today is American Independence Day and on Monday, the seventh, it is another very special day as well! I wonder how many of you will remember what it is? No clues but, Dear Readers, if you read my Blog, you should know what July the seventh signifies.
At home on the front wall all the Basil, Spearmint, Peppermint and other herbs are in fine fettle. The herbs are very rich and strong in taste, they like this hot, very sunny weather and it increases the oil content in the leaves tremendously.
The four indeterminate tomato plants are strutting their stuff, that's for sure. Three of them have their pots in a huge plastic store box, the type of which is used for under the bed storage, the box allows her to have a good four inches of water and the tomatoes, a basil, a very hot chilli pepper and a skinny pot of chervil are all as happy as clams and growing like crazy!
The fourth tomato plant is by the front door, a monster! Tommies love her, I know this sounds really dotty but IF I could get SWSBO to post photos onto my Blog, you would know this to be true!
They grow to be enormous, with masses of fat juicy fruits of delicious flavour. The last tommie is a Yellow Tumbling Tom, she gets the sun from sun-up until it pops over the house and already has several fruit, it won't be long now until we are eating our favourite summer food, homegrown tommies with basil and spearmint with some of Debbie's award winning goaty curd from Ellie's Dairy.. yum!
I am off to bed now, she gets up very early when the days are hot and although she does not insist on me getting up as well, I wake up too as you never know, I might miss something and we can't have that happen.
PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip.
GeeGee Parrot.
July 4th, 2014.
He would drop her at one place and whilst she was doing whatever she had to do there, he would zoom off somewhere else collecting or delivering items. They used to travel far afield these two and, most days, I went with them in my large travelling cage.
But those days are long gone and so it must be at least six months since they last met.
He is an incredibly nice and very kind man and when he heard that her shed had been so very badly vandalised the last time, he was furious and telephoned to say that he'd be picking her up and they were going to B&Q to get the necessary things and he would mend it for her!
Hello!
How nice and kind was that! And not a penny would he accept. Such a thoughtful gesture.
And so this Tale is to tell you how Miss Fig and Miss Cherry both travelled in great style out to the allotment today, plus the eight buckets of soil, placed into huge plastic sacks, went whoosh.. all in one fell swoop.. into the back of Dean's pristine car and off they went, bumpy-bump off down the windy-wobbly track to the plots.
She decided, when Dean arrived this afternoon on the dot of two of the afternoon clock, to take Miss Sunburst Cherry out to the allotment as well. She was not really very happy in that pot by the front door, it was too small and she will be planted in the long bed on the other side of the main walk-way fence.
With her are several roses and lots of tall red and scarlet flowers, well, they're supposed to be there, their leaves all came up but not one flower has yet to be seen.. huh.. their days are numbered, that's for sure!
Nothing get's to stay living in that garden unless it produces something! And just leaves of flowers are not enough!
As it is at least ten days since she was last there and the weather has been mighty hot with very little rain, she was convinced that the two baby pepper plants and the two equally small courgette / zucchini plants would be dead. It was a nice surprise to see that everyone was alive and, in fact, doing very well!
Maybe our kind plot neighbour, Andrew, took pity on them and has given them the odd bucket or two of water? She will ask him if he is around this week end.
She came home with a bag of the tiniest Broad (Fava) and Dwarf French beans, just how we like them and masses of Peas and Mange-Tout
But the best thing were the first row of Charlotte Potatoes which she dug up. Oh.. heavens to Betsy.. She had them for supper tonight with Johanna's Hot Potato Sauce, oh, slurp-the-durp.
There is lots and lots of work to do, there are lots of plums ripening, she has to finish the summer pruning of the apple and pear trees and to go back and do a bit more on the Morello cherry tree.
Plus she has to pick the Lavender! Which is out-doing itself this year! Dark and very deliciously smelly! Picked and plaited whilst the stems are pliable, they are pretty gifts and make your cupboards and drawers smell wonderful, plus the moths hate the smell, which is an added bonus!
Today is American Independence Day and on Monday, the seventh, it is another very special day as well! I wonder how many of you will remember what it is? No clues but, Dear Readers, if you read my Blog, you should know what July the seventh signifies.
At home on the front wall all the Basil, Spearmint, Peppermint and other herbs are in fine fettle. The herbs are very rich and strong in taste, they like this hot, very sunny weather and it increases the oil content in the leaves tremendously.
The four indeterminate tomato plants are strutting their stuff, that's for sure. Three of them have their pots in a huge plastic store box, the type of which is used for under the bed storage, the box allows her to have a good four inches of water and the tomatoes, a basil, a very hot chilli pepper and a skinny pot of chervil are all as happy as clams and growing like crazy!
The fourth tomato plant is by the front door, a monster! Tommies love her, I know this sounds really dotty but IF I could get SWSBO to post photos onto my Blog, you would know this to be true!
They grow to be enormous, with masses of fat juicy fruits of delicious flavour. The last tommie is a Yellow Tumbling Tom, she gets the sun from sun-up until it pops over the house and already has several fruit, it won't be long now until we are eating our favourite summer food, homegrown tommies with basil and spearmint with some of Debbie's award winning goaty curd from Ellie's Dairy.. yum!
I am off to bed now, she gets up very early when the days are hot and although she does not insist on me getting up as well, I wake up too as you never know, I might miss something and we can't have that happen.
PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip.
GeeGee Parrot.
July 4th, 2014.
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