Where to Start?

The garden has been yielding more courgette / marrows, and the first tomatoes are emerging from the greenhouse.

It all looks a bit daunting at the moment - the marrows in particular!

Tomato sauce, courgette bhaji, and courgette lasagne here we come . . .

Eastern Travels

Bank holiday weekend and off to East Anglia . . .

Catch-up with family, and some nice days out to some new local sights - for some reason we'd never made it to St Ives before, with its charming waterfront and C15th bridge with a chapel built into it:

Another trip took us to Gooderstone Water Gardens and we also made a return visit to Oxburgh Hall:


Unfortunately we couldn't get inside, as they'd recently experienced the dramatic collapse of a Victorian dormer window into the courtyard (as seen here) at which point I guess health and safety kicked in!


All in all a good weekend, with some great fenland skies:

Magpie Moth

Spotted this on the lawn today - thought it was a butterfly at first but couldn't identify it . . . 

Luckily there are experts out there who know about these things, and it turns out it is actually a Magpie Moth - pity it was dead really!

Seashore Sunshine

Beautiful sunny evening on the prom - what else is there to say!

Here We Go Again . . .

The (almost) annual marrow post - never quite get to those courgettes in time!

Adapted a bhaji recipe this year to use the grated marrow, which has worked well - certainly got plenty to work my way through!

Potato Harvest

Dug up the potatoes today - two varieties - Desiree and King Edward (plus a third 'unknown').

Reasonable haul, cleaned up nicely - so some should keep.

The rest will be mashed for the freezer - packaged up a basic mash (no milk or butter) freezes well enough  - ready for use when required . . .

First Redcurrants

After two years (and annual decimation by sawfly) our (still tiny) redcurrant bush has finally produced some redcurrants!