Not sure because I can’t see the source of the smoke, but it looks an awful lot like it could be a field fire. I do know of one idiot who has started a bonfire in the last few weeks, but I’m hoping most sane people would see sense.
Worrying that not having seen one in twenty plus years, I’ve seen two from my home in the last year or so.
Not seen this one before and I’ve no idea what it is. I’m intrigued. The colouring makes me think of a coastal plant.
All falls apart with the evening reading 🙁
I’ve been quite shocked seeing coverage of the wildfires currently burning in France and Spain. I can’t even begin to envisage what the evacuation of a third of a million people must be like. It’s also a little discomforting to think that the northernmost (and probably worst) of the fires is actually only around 450 miles south of my own home. In terms of weather systems that really doesn’t feel very far at all.
But, and perhaps this is the most important issue, I wonder how many people affected either because they live in the general area (which will presumably number in the millions by now) or because they’re in positions of authority will now be saying to themselves “It’s time we really started to take climate change properly seriously”?
This just seems completely mental.
How can ten people have a brawl on an aeroplane? I imagine it was over something totally inconsequential too, never mind the inconvenience they caused to everyone else on the aircraft. Rather than turning back the crew should have opened a door and firmly invited them to leave immediately.
Today was onion harvesting day. Pretty much all of the onion leaves had fallen over though that may have been due to the drought, but in fact most of the bulbs were a decent size too.
Red ones first.
I put them on a piece of mesh over one of the compost bays to cure. I need more space, but I’ll sort that out later.
Then the yellow/brown ones, which ever description you prefer.
I was very pleased with these two — the largest of each variety.
Not so pleasing was the state of my climbing beans. It’s not easy to tell from this photo, but the deer have eaten off most of the leaves up to about a metre high. Not happy.
Also not happy is this elder tree in the hedge along one side of the veggie plot. Looks like it is showing serious signs of water stress now.
Not sure why, but I just squeezed over the 200 barrier in the morning. And whilst the afternoon reading was good, I felt awful. Complete waste of an afternoon, basically.
I spent some time today potting pepper plants up into ten litre (roughly) pots. I say “pots”; actually they are twenty litre dairy hypochlorite jugs that I cut in half and drilled drainage holes in. I’m running low on bought compost, so I scraped up the remains of last year’s compost made from food waste and the contents of the compost toilet and put it through a sieve to get rid of any “lumpy bits” 😀 Actually it looks very nice.
Whilst scraping everything together, I found this little chap hiding in the compost bin.
Not sure what (s)he found of interest there. Perhaps it was just a nice place to hide out.
Having freed up a number of five litre pots as a result of potting on, I then potted up a few more pepper plants. I have so many this year and I can’t bear to compost them right now 😀
I also collected a few more tomatoes from the polytunnel. They’ll be in tomorrow’s lunch.
And looking pretty much like I’m currently expecting. Only just sneaked under the 200 barrier though 😀
Didn’t get as much as I wanted done today, but (I think) the drugs I’m already taking were making me feel a bit iffy. Still, I got one of the longest rows of vines done. And I found some lovely-looking grapes, too.
