15/30: Birthday bulb

Well, I guess it’s not bad going if it took me until halfway through the month of posting every day before I had a half past eleven “oh crap, I’ve not blogged anything yet” run-on sentence moment. I’ve been stuck in front of the computer all day, doing various things and then warring with some [...]

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7/30: My avocado has a winkle

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1/30: Some kind of plan

I turn 30 this month. *Gasp* Mind you, I’m still not convinced I’ll ever change my age from 28 on the About Me page. Anyway, since the month rather neatly has 30 days, I thought I’d post every day for my birthday month. Sort of like a previous 30 Tiny Moments kind of project, but [...]

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End of season

I cleared up the tomato part of the vegetable patch last weekend. I gathered up what I could of the remaining green tomatoes that I thought might just escape the blight. There were a few red fruits here and there, lots of green and a lot of withered brown tomatoes too. Ugly and inedible, but [...]

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7 Days: Day 5 – Outside in the vegetable patch

Finally it stopped raining and out came the sun so I could go an inspect the vegetable patch for the first time in a few days. On my left are the now rather dilapidated cherry tomatoes and on my right are two of the four pumpkins. The two out of frame are the biggest and [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Tumbling toms

These are just some of the lovely cherry tomatoes I’ve picked this summer. The yellow ones aren’t much for flavour, but make good salad/sandwich filling. The red ones on the other hand are fabulously sweet and delicious. I’m pleased to have harvested more than half a kilo so far this year. There are lots more [...]

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Unstoppable menace

With so much rain falling recently, I erected a kind of shanty town in the vegetable patch in an effort to keep my tomatoes somewhat drier. Cutting black plastic sacks into sheets I tied them together as a roof over the plants, held in place by the canes that were already helping to keep the [...]

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Unexpected house guest

I just went to put the garage keys away, having absentmindedly brought them with me into the office when I got back from posting a couple of birthday cards. Walking into the sitting room I was surprised to see a little blue tit clinging to the window handle. I’d had the back door open for [...]

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