Ladies, this is Cumil

Cumil has slightly disturbing neon green eyes, but he’s also been run over a lot, so I think we can excuse him. He’s a bronze statue in Bratislava, but because he’s emerging from the ground, he’s been knocked about a bit by drivers and now the city have given him his own road sign to [...]

Bratislava

I went to Bratislava at the end of August, for more of the music man and his boat. An attempt to see whether I could get near the boat without bringing down a huge hailstorm upon it like last time.
The parents and I did a bit of sightseeing on the first day. Everything seemed to [...]

Seriously, he was the size of Buckingham Palace

I was out in my patch on Sunday morning, poking, trimming, digging and getting scratched by things. I dug over the ground where the potatoes had been once more to see if I’d missed anything and found another 7g of little spuds. SCORE!
Suddenly something caught my eye. “Oh my GOD!” I exclaimed (because I’m all [...]

Harvest has begun

My pumpkins are still lording it over, well, everything and the one that has crept out of the patch is still marching merrily across the lawn. A female flower on the end of that vine was open this morning, so I pollinated it and now we shall wait and see whether we get a pumpkin [...]

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