Oh, my goodness me, she must love me very much. Why? Well, she knows I am just crazy-daisy about our home grown courgettes / zucchinis which she steams and then pan fries in olive oil with garlic and herbs but the traffic, Dear Readers, the traffic going out to the plots today was beyond gruesome!
There was a thirteen mile long traffic jam on the road to Heathrow and the Hogarth Flyover is not in use at the moment. So each trip, the one going there and the one coming back home, took over an hour and a half!
But back she came with some lovely stuff! Baby courgette balls and mini long ones, just the way we like them.
Plums too as well as a few apples, but dreadfully sad news about the blackberries.. sad, sad news.. all that torrential rain which we have had has rotted the fruit. We are, therefore, very lucky that she picked and froze a few boxes two week-ends ago. There are a few left but nothing to get excited about.
Next week she will lop all of the plants down, haul them all away and dig out their roots, for these invasive plants have taken over about an entire plot, not all in one spot but in several places and enough is enough, they have to go, as do those old autumn raspberries.
But she has to wear very thick protective clothing and boots when she does this, she has a white scar on her upper left arm where a briar tore the skin right open.. silly plant, it may have won that battle but she won the war and she will do so again.
It takes a lot of effort and time but she has done it before, thirteen years ago, and knows how to defeat old Mr. Briar.
But back to the food, it was all very tasty and fresh, picked less than two hours before we ate it.
On the stove there is a pot of plums cooking gently with dried mulberries and barberries, a bowl of compote on yoghurt will be her breakfast tomorrow.. slurp!
I love a good compote of fruit, she dollops a small amount on a saucer for me, I never know which to eat first, the fruit or the yoghurt?
She could hardly see her lovely boss when she called into the shop on her way home to give her a bag of edible goodies, there were a massive amount of donations piled in the shop, so she has said she will go in and help tomorrow.
This means that I will have a quiet day by myself and will probably spend most of it dozing on front door pole but I trust that you, Dear Readers, have pleasant plans for the next few days?
GeeGee Parrot.
August 15th, 2014.
There was a thirteen mile long traffic jam on the road to Heathrow and the Hogarth Flyover is not in use at the moment. So each trip, the one going there and the one coming back home, took over an hour and a half!
But back she came with some lovely stuff! Baby courgette balls and mini long ones, just the way we like them.
Plums too as well as a few apples, but dreadfully sad news about the blackberries.. sad, sad news.. all that torrential rain which we have had has rotted the fruit. We are, therefore, very lucky that she picked and froze a few boxes two week-ends ago. There are a few left but nothing to get excited about.
Next week she will lop all of the plants down, haul them all away and dig out their roots, for these invasive plants have taken over about an entire plot, not all in one spot but in several places and enough is enough, they have to go, as do those old autumn raspberries.
But she has to wear very thick protective clothing and boots when she does this, she has a white scar on her upper left arm where a briar tore the skin right open.. silly plant, it may have won that battle but she won the war and she will do so again.
It takes a lot of effort and time but she has done it before, thirteen years ago, and knows how to defeat old Mr. Briar.
But back to the food, it was all very tasty and fresh, picked less than two hours before we ate it.
On the stove there is a pot of plums cooking gently with dried mulberries and barberries, a bowl of compote on yoghurt will be her breakfast tomorrow.. slurp!
I love a good compote of fruit, she dollops a small amount on a saucer for me, I never know which to eat first, the fruit or the yoghurt?
She could hardly see her lovely boss when she called into the shop on her way home to give her a bag of edible goodies, there were a massive amount of donations piled in the shop, so she has said she will go in and help tomorrow.
This means that I will have a quiet day by myself and will probably spend most of it dozing on front door pole but I trust that you, Dear Readers, have pleasant plans for the next few days?
GeeGee Parrot.
August 15th, 2014.
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