My friend Tony has already started picking his runner beans - mine haven't even got flowers yet!
But I did pick my first tomato today (though all the rest are green so it will be a while before I pick my second).
The loganberries and the raspberries are over, as are the blackcurrants. But I am getting fruit from the second redcurrant bush for my breakfast supplemented by blackberries from my neighbour's overgrown garden.
Today I picked blackberries from Leyton Marshes and the crumble is in the oven as I type. Really large berries!
I got spring onions, carrots and leeks on tape from Thompson and Morgan. Disaster! Nothing at all has germinated.
I enjoy getting stuff to eat from my garden, but luckily I don't depend on it.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Saturday, July 23, 2016
children temporarily wanted for outdoor nature activities
Even as a teenager I did not foresee my future as involving children. Coincidentally none of my friends have children either. At the moment I am feeling the lack of temporary access to children.
They would have to be the right type of children of course - interested in the outdoors and nature and crafts.
I've just got "Learning with nature" with lots of outdoor things to make or do. Some are bit outdoor-classroom-ish but many would be fun to do but I couldn't see myself doing as a adult on my own where I might be seen. I would be far too self-conscious!
Some would be possible with some other interested adults, especially some of the games, but I've got the wrong type of friends!
There are a few things I could do myself in the garden, and I plan to have a go at these.
I got a book last year on things to make outdoors and I saved various plastic containers to make snow castles and ice bricks, and feathers and acorns to make little snow birds - and London didn't have any snow! Fingers crossed for the coming year!
Snowy weather is great (as long as I am not trying to get anywhere) as it is a time when adults are allowed to be like children again.
They would have to be the right type of children of course - interested in the outdoors and nature and crafts.
I've just got "Learning with nature" with lots of outdoor things to make or do. Some are bit outdoor-classroom-ish but many would be fun to do but I couldn't see myself doing as a adult on my own where I might be seen. I would be far too self-conscious!
Some would be possible with some other interested adults, especially some of the games, but I've got the wrong type of friends!
There are a few things I could do myself in the garden, and I plan to have a go at these.
I got a book last year on things to make outdoors and I saved various plastic containers to make snow castles and ice bricks, and feathers and acorns to make little snow birds - and London didn't have any snow! Fingers crossed for the coming year!
Snowy weather is great (as long as I am not trying to get anywhere) as it is a time when adults are allowed to be like children again.
Friday, July 22, 2016
Rain on me, little on the garden
There was some very light rain this morning, so I didn't water the pots (or pick any red currants, black currants, loganberries, raspberries and "wild" strawberries to have with my breakfast cereal).
There is a youth centre that was one of the old Essex County Cricket grounds near the bus stop and this morning there were 6 wood pigeons on the grass. Two of them were laying on their sides, every now and then opening the upper wing to get some of the rain on the on the underneath of the wing and the bit of the body usually protected by it.
The weather forecast I heard on the radio this morning had predicted rain this afternoon. And we had this at work (Euston). It had eased off by the time I stepped out of the building at 5 pm but had started up again before I reached the pavement!
I arrived at Walthamstow Central to find sunshine and dry pavements. It doesn't look as if we had any rain in the afternoon. It doesn't look like we will get any this evening either.
There is a youth centre that was one of the old Essex County Cricket grounds near the bus stop and this morning there were 6 wood pigeons on the grass. Two of them were laying on their sides, every now and then opening the upper wing to get some of the rain on the on the underneath of the wing and the bit of the body usually protected by it.
The weather forecast I heard on the radio this morning had predicted rain this afternoon. And we had this at work (Euston). It had eased off by the time I stepped out of the building at 5 pm but had started up again before I reached the pavement!
I arrived at Walthamstow Central to find sunshine and dry pavements. It doesn't look as if we had any rain in the afternoon. It doesn't look like we will get any this evening either.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Scratched but happy!
Yesterday I was picking gooseberries from the only surviving bush in my neighbour's garden. I cleared back vegetation at the beginning of the year, but the bindweed was encroaching. However, the gooseberries were large due to all the rain, and I picked 1 1/4 kilograms from the bush.
My arms are scratched so I am using my comfrey cream on them.
I took half the gooseberries into the kayak club this morning to give to a friend, and made the rest into a crumble for me.
I still have my 4 bushes to pick but don't expect to get as much combined from them as I did from one bush yesterday.
When cycling along the Lea Navigation yesterday, and again to and from the kayak club today I passed people with binoculars and telescopes interested in the roofs of the houses by the pub between the club and Leabridge Road. On the way home today I asked what bird they were interested in. It was the rose finch, normally found in Easter Europe and Russia.
My arms are scratched so I am using my comfrey cream on them.
I took half the gooseberries into the kayak club this morning to give to a friend, and made the rest into a crumble for me.
I still have my 4 bushes to pick but don't expect to get as much combined from them as I did from one bush yesterday.
When cycling along the Lea Navigation yesterday, and again to and from the kayak club today I passed people with binoculars and telescopes interested in the roofs of the houses by the pub between the club and Leabridge Road. On the way home today I asked what bird they were interested in. It was the rose finch, normally found in Easter Europe and Russia.
Scratched but happy!
Yesterday I was picking gooseberries from the only surviving bush in my neighbour's garden. I cleared back vegetation at the beginning of the year, but the bindweed was encroaching. However, the gooseberries were large due to all the rain, and I picked 1 1/4 kilograms from the bush.
My arms are scratched so I am using my comfrey cream on them.
I took half the gooseberries into the kayak club this morning to give to a friend, and made the rest into a crumble for me.
I still have my 4 bushes to pick but don't expect to get as much combined from them as I did from one bush yesterday.
When cycling along the Lea Navigation yesterday, and again to and from the kayak club today I passed people with binoculars and telescopes interested in the roofs of the houses by the pub between the club and Leabridge Road. On the way home today I asked what bird they were interested in. It was the rose finch, normally found in Easter Europe and Russia.
My arms are scratched so I am using my comfrey cream on them.
I took half the gooseberries into the kayak club this morning to give to a friend, and made the rest into a crumble for me.
I still have my 4 bushes to pick but don't expect to get as much combined from them as I did from one bush yesterday.
When cycling along the Lea Navigation yesterday, and again to and from the kayak club today I passed people with binoculars and telescopes interested in the roofs of the houses by the pub between the club and Leabridge Road. On the way home today I asked what bird they were interested in. It was the rose finch, normally found in Easter Europe and Russia.
Scratched but happy!
Yesterday I was picking gooseberries from the only surviving bush in my neighbour's garden. I cleared back vegetation at the beginning of the year, but the bindweed was encroaching. However, the gooseberries were large due to all the rain, and I picked 1 1/4 kilograms from the bush.
My arms are scratched so I am using my comfrey cream on them.
I took half the gooseberries into the kayak club this morning to give to a friend, and made the rest into a crumble for me.
I still have my 4 bushes to pick but don't expect to get as much combined from them as I did from one bush yesterday.
When cycling along the Lea Navigation yesterday, and again to and from the kayak club today I passed people with binoculars and telescopes interested in the roofs of the houses by the pub between the club and Leabridge Road. On the way home today I asked what bird they were interested in. It was the rose finch, normally found in Easter Europe and Russia.
My arms are scratched so I am using my comfrey cream on them.
I took half the gooseberries into the kayak club this morning to give to a friend, and made the rest into a crumble for me.
I still have my 4 bushes to pick but don't expect to get as much combined from them as I did from one bush yesterday.
When cycling along the Lea Navigation yesterday, and again to and from the kayak club today I passed people with binoculars and telescopes interested in the roofs of the houses by the pub between the club and Leabridge Road. On the way home today I asked what bird they were interested in. It was the rose finch, normally found in Easter Europe and Russia.
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