23rd June 2015 - At the Allotment

Just a little excited today...

We finally move into our newly erected shed which is on our allotment that we acquired only 3 weeks ago, many thanks to Georgie. When we got there it was totally overgrown, but closer inspection revealed some hidden treasures amongst the many, many, many weeds.  We found an entire bed of strawberries, masses or raspberry bushes, redcurrant bushes, gooseberry bushes and some rhubarb to boot!

Unfortunately, being the cretin that I am sometimes, I have deleted our first ever photo, I don't think Lauren will be too happy. However, here is a picture from about day 3, we had already dug over the first two raised beds.

Most of the other 8 beds we had yet to dig contained giant vegetables which had been left to their own devices, all of which sadly were totally inedible.

Perseverence and hard work won out, during the past fortnight we have been able to plant - swedes, sweetcorn, potatoes, peas, cabbage, fennel and carrots, as well as radish, lettuce and mooli amongst others.  All with NO shed!

But friends the day has come...

Just off up the lottie, portable stove in hand to put together some shelves and bonus...Lauren has bought a new kettle - should be fun!

Love Melissa x

21st June 2015

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce my cat, Obi (as in Obi Wan Kenobi).  Probably the most stupid animal on the planet.

Today is Sunday.  Morning.  We had a busy day yesterday - a newly freecycled shed to erect in the morning at the allotment and a BBQ get together with him upstairs' extended family.  The house looks like a bombs gone off, and I have big plans to sort out our shed in the back garden too.  Our shed is like an oubliette, we put stuff in there to forget about.

So in order to get underway with said big plans, I need to have a quick whip around to get the place in some sort of order.

This is what happens...

Can you see him, there at the back?!!!

15 minutes later...no honestly...15 minutes later

I did try to shut the drawers, but the animal just sat there.  Exasperated, I was left with no choice, (NO I didn't wash him you evil people!)  I left the washer open until he decided that the machine had, had a thorough inspection, and very slowly ambled out and moved onto something less interesting, which happened to be staring at the nearest cupboard.

Gotta love him tho'

Love Melissa x