Early Mid Week Slump

Christ,I'm knackered with no good reason!

Gen and I were supposed to play silly tennis tonight (so called as we are so embarrassingly crap), we never got it together. But she feels crap too (what a relief) this now means that I have the time finally to get a batch of nettle beer on the go.

There are loads of different nettle beer recipes floating about the tinty web I use a River Cottage one. Having said that I don't know what today's batch will turn out like, as I'm going a bit free style. I don't have enough caster sugar so am going to use a mix of demorara and whatever I can find it the cupboard.

I'll keep you posted.

Worlds Most Expensive Fabric

It doesn't look that fancy does it? I am afraid to say that the picture shows the most expensive fabric that I have ever and will ever purchase.

In total - a tenner for two and a half meters of assorted fabric and a bit of elastic (the light blue is for a couple of cushions for the front room, the black for a t-shirt dress and the flowery green for some pj bottoms)
- £325 for the fee to get the clamp of my car.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things I Want to do this Summer

This is a wish list of some of the sensible things I want to do this summer........

Visit Kew and have a picnic

Go walking along the Pembrokeshire coast & stay in St Davids where I went to primary school

Camp in St Ives & visit the Eden project

Go & see the Sea Eagles up in the Scottish islands

Visit the Victoria & Albert museum

Go to the lost gardens of Helligan

win the lotto

The Stall

I haven't had the photo's emailed to me of the food stall I did at Green Man on bank holiday yet. Here is a quick pik taken on Sam's phone as I was setting it up. I will get round to uploading the rest of the photo's and the recipes, as promised, soon.

Ground Force in Action

I am lucky in having some great neighbours.

Betty, who lives across the road, is particularly cool. She is 82 and a great laugh. I found out this week that she has been let down by someone she paid to do a bit of work in her garden. Betty still grows loads of veg but finds digging and doing the grownd work a bit tough these days.

I would like to think that I was feeling very community spirited when I had my bright idea to help out (I wasn't though, I was on my way back from the pub, so in all honesty I was feeling a bit pissed). I decided to rally some mates (drunk texting with a purpose, how strange) and get a crew over to help.

Thanks to Gen, Keir and Karen for getting out of bed this morning. It only took us a couple of hours between us to dig Betty's beds and discover Keir's suppressed topiary skills.

The Allotment

Uh oh,I think this may be the beginning of something serious. We have an allotment.

This has all happened incredibly quickly. Last week my lovely mate Karen popped in for a cuppa on the way home from picking up baby Nelly (that them in the picture) and suggested we may look into getting an patch in the allotments across the road from her house. I though that, what with allotment waiting lists, this would be a future plan. Next thing I know, Karen has had a chat with her neighbour who can't cope with his and bingo we are now co allotmentears!

It's barren but for a few weeds at the moment and has very clay soil (the site was an old brick works) so bring on some intense hard work and compost!

Spreading Seeds

Ah,I have had a lovely day off work today. Crikey I needed it!

I had a brilliant time at the Green Man festival in Shropshire on the bank holiday. The first outing of my new sideline, my vegy food stall, went down really well. We sold out of almost every thing and got some great feedback. Quite a few people asked me for recipes which I will put on here in the next week or so, as soon as I have the piks to go with them. It was knackering though!!

Today I have been making packets of salad seeds for friends. I love to mix my favourite salad leaves and herbs together to get a good mix. Its a lot cheaper than buying rip off bags of loose leaves from the super markets and as I love peppery leaves I can put plenty of fiery varieties in a mix.