Harvested 5 chaenomeles cathayensis fruits today - think japanese flowering quince on steroids. The fruit is closer in size to the true quince and cricket ball hard. They make a lovely jelly and cheese/fruit leather which I cut into pastilles and cover with dark chocolate, yum!
I was in our local Dobbies yesterday, not that that is anything to be particularly cheerful about if you're looking for garden related items! I was sitting drinking coffee when very loud bird song started up. I looked all over the place before spotting the 'performer'. It was a robin, sat on a post no more than 6 feet away from me. I was amazed at the sound volume from such a small bird. The curved shape of the roof above may have been helping but it was pretty impressive.
Just heard that a foody friend in Venuezuela, who's wife and child were visiting relatives in Spain just before lockdown, has a real reason to be cheerful ... there's a humanitarian flight going to take them home to Caracas on 6 Nov. He's not seen them since February. He says this Christmas will be the best ever .............. he's divided the house up into zones ... the big clear up has begun 😱 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-54625192
My RTBC at the moment is lovely leaf mould. Potential and existing. Yum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-54703661
It did me.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.