a weblog with an allotment attached
23 July 2008
Today is my birthday. I’m hoping that someone will buy me some trousers like these…
This picture of me, my mum and my maternal grandmother gives some kind of idea not only of how I looked then, but presumably also how I will look in years to come. There are worse way to age, I [...]
Filed under: Archive photo — Clare @ 6:40 am
17 July 2008
I think I might have mentioned that we have had a bumper garlic harvest. 11.5kg. That’s a whole lot of stinkiness. In fairness, that is the weight of the garlic with all its leaves still attached, but still, it’s fair to say that we have ridiculous amounts of garlic and so it seems [...]
Filed under: Harvest, Mulch, Recipes - Non-soup — Clare @ 4:59 pm
10 July 2008
On Tuesday night we treated ourselves to takeaway curry. I had managed to scrape the car not once, but twice (one for each side, lovely!) and as a result I was in no mood for healthy food. While enjoying our Murgh e shorisha we watched this. We saw this series before a few [...]
Filed under: Wildlife — Clare @ 7:06 pm
3 July 2008
If there’s one crop that just screams summer, it must be the glorious strawberry, and this year we’ve been blessed with a bumper crop.
We’re an odd household in that I don’t like to eat them with cream (so wrong, if you ask me) and my gardening assitant doesn’t eat them at all. I tend to [...]
Filed under: Recipes - Non-soup, Seasons - summer — Clare @ 6:17 pm
2 July 2008
(on the second - ssshhhh!)
I haven’t been in Barcelona for as long as it must seem if you’ve been waiting for me to update. Sorry. Term is now over so there should be much more time for me to be in the garden and to let you know what has been happening. Expect a flurry [...]
Filed under: First of the month — Clare @ 6:42 pm