My lifelong addiction to sweets saw me sitting in the dental hot seat this morning awaiting a second bone graft around my dental implants. This evening it hurts like h….. but when I think of the 60 plus years of pleasure this might be a price worth paying. The jury is out. Here at The Gables we are expecting rain and high winds tomorrow

Plum and chilli chutney

Then the children have a wheelbarrow ride

And then a tractor ride

Several years ago our friends, SF and MF, bought us a melamine bowl decorated with a soft fruit and strawberry print. It seemed an unusual present at the time but I use that bowl every single day. I mix cakes in it, I pick tomatoes in it and this morning I cut plums into it, preparing them for the freezer.

It’s my favourite item in our kitchen and I have been searching, without success, for another. I went onto eBay on Sunday and there was a similar melamine bowl plus two small bowls. Not the same print, but this time a salad pattern. They arrived yesterday and I love them!

Will the bean canes still be standing at the end of today

(One is hiding underneath it’s mother).