which Jeremy and Chris put up to keep out any marauding foxes. Any determined creatures can find the gaps but it’s as good as we can make it without electrifying the fence.
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This is not Vaporwave but it is a pretty pink cloud
Vaporwave and Future Funk aficionado tries to explain to me how 80’s dance music is being redefined and reinterpreted by the millennials – and a little slice of Chairman Mao memorabilia arrives at The Gables
It was an interesting afternoon with talk ranging from Bernie Sanders, Trump and gun control to the new record label that one of our visitors has just set up in Oklahoma City…………CORASPECT RECORDS. Check it out. I am still trying to understand what sort of music this is but I am going to listen and see if it moves me. Nigel made a new friend.
And a box from mainland China was opened after we ate our pizzas. It contained a red army arm band and also a Chairman Mao mango badge. It’s a long story (something to do with the rift between the red army and the workers and peasant brigade) but our dear friend from Grantham has, probably, the most extensive collection of Mao badges and memorabilia in the UK as well as the knowledge of their history. All fascinating stuff and a welcome break from cooking in the barn kitchen!
Friends from across the Pond and also from Grantham enjoy a lunchtime pizza
The pumpkin patch and it’s produce
Cucumbers, pumpkins, courgettes, tromboncinos, butternut squashes and more. The most rewarding section of the summer garden and the most prolific.
An unprepossessing plum, small and dark skinned with a yellow flesh – unlike the grand and regal Victoria plum.
Yet the small, dark Damson produces a jewel red jam that is delicious and luscious.
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Singing in the rain? Well, walking in the rain.
How to convey the delicious smell in the polytunnel?
Impossible to send aromas over the ether or the internet (for now) but when I opened the tunnel to pick some heads of dill, the smell,was wonderful.
This year the green peppers are fat and glossy as are the growing aubergines .
Outside the cucumbers are proliferating and Jeremy picked 12 before breakfast. So it’s pickling time – some in the fridge and some fermenting on the counter.
I don’t usually buy gadgets but I have two electric devices
The first is a well worn and well used bread maker that produces two or three loaves a week with minimal effort from yours truly. The second I bought last week and am using it for the second time in three days.
It’s a dehydrator and its first use was to dry apples and plums (some of which I nibbled during my car journey to and from London today) and it is now drying slices from three pineapples that I bought this morning and cut this evening. Dried pineapple is one of my favourite snacks so, if the dehydrator works, I will be well pleased and in pocket.
By the time I returned from London, the field along Mill Road has been cut and baled
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