Green & Country in the City 29 October

• Read in the Wren newsletter (Wren is a group for those with an interest in the history and plants and wildlife on Wanstead flats) that 3-corned leek can take over and is impossible to get rid of. So I will have to do my best to keep mine under control. Will try eating as much of it as I can. I am thinking of adding it to a nut butter - coconut oil, ground nuts, yeast extract and 3-cornered leek. Should be nice on toast!
• Planted out heather on Wednesday and today was planting tulips, including 3 sets of tulip bulbs that are supposed to naturalise. Supposed to plant tulips 20cm deep but I did them less than that and am hoping for the best.
• At work we had the first tasting of our kombucha which is made with a scoby (a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast). It was ready on Tuesday but we waited til Friday as more of the team were in. It tasted of pickle water. It is supposed to be good for the digestion. It had grown another scoby. (The scoby is the team "pet" we got after our team away afternoon when we had time making tonics and teas with Rachel de Thample.)
• Condensation on the bathroom and bedroom window yesterday. My friend Tony said he had a frost in Chingford.
• There was a skip with some offcuts on the way home from Leyton station yesterday. Took a few pieces as I passed and went back for more. 
• Decanted black currant gin. One ordinary bottle and one little bottle.
• Hope to have time to make Christmas pudding liqueur with vodka, sugar spices, and dried fruit. It is supposed to be ready in a month. I will treat it like sloe gin and not decant for at least 3 months and then leave for at least 9 months more.