A bit of charity.

My twin sister is raising money for a very worthy cause. She's going to Nepal to walk across the Himalayas to raise money for the Alzheimers society. She's doing so very well, she's almost raised £3000 so far.

A bit of progress.

Well. The last of my potatoes are up, it was actually less then the first lot but I'm pretty pleased with the overall amount. Especially as the haulms died down so early.
The broad beans Aquadulce Claudia have gone into the potato bed now. I must buy more, I've run out now.
The spiders this year are nuts, they are everywhere! I watched the chickens eat one this morning that had attached itself to their water bucket in the two minutes I'd been filling it. I also watched the Puppy walk straight into a massive web, with the massive spider still attached. it ended up on her face. She ended up punching herself in the face.

Talking of spiders.

I dropped my mobile phone down behind the sofa last night and when I was trying to retrieve it, armed with an old axe handle, I moved the sofa back after much effort and out jumped a spider that was as big or bigger than my palm! I almost soiled myself I can tell you. And no I didn't kill it. I don't kill spiders. Its still out there somewhere... Waiting.  

quick update.

I've only got time for a short post today as I'm at work soon.
My Garlic from the garlic farm finally arrived yesterday to much excitement from me. :) Its quite funny to he honest. The post lady has been delivering lots of parcels for my OH and I said Why on earth does he keep ordering all of this stuff, to her before she left. About 2 minutes later she turns up saying I knew I had something else for you and it was for ME! :)  My garlic. four bulbs of two different types. A hard neck and a soft neck.

If the nice weather finally coincides with my time off work I will dig up the rest of the potatoes, sow the broad beans in the bed and then take a look at the new garlic bed. Its going to be a few weeks before I plant the garlic I think. I need to wait for the pumpkin and sweetcorn to ripen or die off before I will clear the bed of this years stuff.

Stuck at home.

Runner bean, carrot and quorn sausage toad in the hole. It was pretty incredible to be honest. Just that with gravy.

The puppy really, really likes these dog chews. Might have something to do with their size. They're called 'pudding sticks' for some insane reason. 

I'm stuck at home waiting for a delivery to arrive and I'm going stir crazy. I'd normally be taking the dogs on their second walk by now but I can't, so I've been trying to keep busy cleaning the kitchen, bathroom, cleaning all of the chicken pots and topping up their bedding. 

I would be doing stuff in the greenhouse but I can't get in it. Its covered in loads of the biggest, fattest spiders I've ever seen in my life. And their webs are all at face height. I've tried removing them with the handle of the rake and hopefully I've got them all, but I'm all spidered out for the time being, so I don't want to go back in.

In fact I've just thought of something I could be doing. Cleaning the chick brooder.

Chuffed. :)

I walked to Wilkos today. At first I was disappointed as they had removed all of the gardening stuff to replace it all with Halloween and domdomdom... Christmas stuff. But I found all of the remaining plant and flower seeds for half price AND buy three for two!!! I bought seven packets for £2.50 :D :D :D

I bought kale, French climbing beans, dwarf sunflower, chard, Rudbeckia, cress (for growing inside) and I think I bought some sweet peas. Can't remember and I'm not going to look. :p Very pleased about all of that for £2.50.

Mucking about with the camera.

mayan gold potatoes.

This is about 40% of this years potatoes. I'm not too unhappy with it. The leaves died back really early this year so I am actually quite pleased. Its a five feet by five feet raised bed so its not a lot of space. I'll be putting broad beans in the ground as soon as I've removed the tatoes. The beans should be out in time for the squash to go in the ground in June next year. Look how organised I am :)