Lunch today I'll be even happier when the tomatoes are from the plots as well as all the salads. My Cypriot friends have introduced us to purslane, the wild type, not to be confused with winter purslane or miners lettuce. If you look it up on tinternet it seems to have a near unbelievable range of health benefits. Perhaps it's the real secret of the Mediterranean diet.
@Allotment Boy pity you don't live near me, my garden is full of it!
Luckily my friend Tom has loads to and he's given me some plants to grow on. I grew the larger leaved cultivated type before but it has a strange texture and is not as nice.
Book club tonight and I needed to finish the book, so took a couple of cushions out to the bench in the garden, put on my gardening hat and sat there reading trying to present a picturesque English lady image from when my OH returned from the shops. He laughed. And I was hot and sticky. But finished the book and then took some pics of the plants that are pleasing me at the moment, avoiding the messy bits. Here are my pots: And yes, I do know that I really shouldn't have a fern and hosta facing south but I just love the shapes. I'll find a shady corner for them in the autumn.
Builders have finished for the day, it must have been hot working on the roof, but we kept them supplied with cold drinks. They reckon they will finish on Thursday, then we have to save up for the next bit of work that needs doing.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Afternoon all, phew, isn't it hot - but not hot enough for Hostafan apparently. Reckon he's got iced water in his veins. It was 3l.8 c when I got back this afternoon. Had an early joint birthday lunch with a friend in a nearby town. Fortunately both my car and the restaurant was air cooled, couldn't have managed otherwise. I'm struggling with this kind of heat but it cooled down rapidly last night and was down to 15c by 11 pm so slept okay. Another friend has just rung and suggested coffee at her place tomorrow but I'm hesitating and will see what the forecast is in the morning.
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Anything below 30c is just warm, below 20C is chilly
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When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Book club tonight and I needed to finish the book, so took a couple of cushions out to the bench in the garden, put on my gardening hat and sat there reading trying to present a picturesque English lady image from when my OH returned from the shops. He laughed. And I was hot and sticky. But finished the book and then took some pics of the plants that are pleasing me at the moment, avoiding the messy bits. Here are my pots:
And yes, I do know that I really shouldn't have a fern and hosta facing south but I just love the shapes. I'll find a shady corner for them in the autumn.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It was 3l.8 c when I got back this afternoon. Had an early joint birthday lunch with a friend in a nearby town. Fortunately both my car and the restaurant was air cooled, couldn't have managed otherwise. I'm struggling with this kind of heat but it cooled down rapidly last night and was down to 15c by 11 pm so slept okay.
Another friend has just rung and suggested coffee at her place tomorrow but I'm hesitating and will see what the forecast is in the morning.