This morning was for baking and buzzards and this afternoon was for pickling
The tractor tyres are fixed and now the thistles can be cut
Cut thistles in May
They’ll be back the next day
Cut thistles in June
They’ll return too soon
Cut thistles in July
They’ll probably die
Cut in August
And die they must
Nearly the same size as mother
Sunday jog/walk
We met the farm owner as we continued home. She told us that due to the drought the yield was down more than 15%.
Listening to radio news reports from Ukraine just now the farmers have no way to export their crops and no money coming in. Many will not be able to plant next year’s crops and that will affect us all.
We have a surplus of ripe, red scotch bonnet chilli peppers but that will not take the place of “real” food but it will make hot chilli jam.
Early morning hot air balloon
u3a walk through Brampton woods
The garlic harvest
Picked and strung last night and hung in the onion barn this morning.
This morning – four of my ‘Aldi’ peppers picked from the polytunnel. (Peppers that I grew from the seeds of a supermarket- bought pepper).
After a “cooking” morning
I was treated to shakshuka, green bean and potato salad brunch al fresco (a few drops of rain fell on us as we ate)
The first string and the first jar of relish
Others were prepped with cucumber last night and this morning …
Tina and Dolly don’t appear to be missing their brother Nuno
When I went to see them an hour ago they were playing happily on the climbing frame. I’ve no doubt that Nuno is enjoying his new surroundings which has a goat “playground” built by his new owner (he sent me another photo late morning see below).
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