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Author Archives: james
Disaster!
When I went to collect the harvest from the polytunnel today I discovered that one of the Jalapeño pepper plants had lost a limb! It had completely snapped off with its load of peppers including the two that I’d tagged … Continue reading
Closer to “normal”
A fairly bearable day for a change.
This Summer, oi ‘as mostly been eatin’ cabbage.
Well, ok, tomatoes and cucumbers have featured quite a bit too, but to my surprise the cabbages have done particularly well despite the heat and lack of rain. Finding new and interesting ways to eat cabbage has been at least … Continue reading
Another pepper harvest
Some sweet peppers, some chiles. Wonderful range of colours. I love it.
Scary!
No idea why my heart rate hit this high this afternoon. It’s hardly reassuring.
Where’d you all go?
Woke up this morning to discover that we’ve fallen off the world overnight. Now expecting dinosaurs and women wearing inappropriate fur bikinis to show up at any moment.
Marginally better, but not much
Not quite the afternoon crash I’ve had for the last few days, but still not that easy to get through 🙁
It’s Tomato Monday once again!
And here’s the latest picture of my plentiful polytunnel produce. There do seem to be quite a few cherry tomatoes. I grow them to eat fresh, but there are so many more that aren’t ripe yet that perhaps I’ll have … Continue reading
Seem to be having quite a few poor days at the moment
It’s not encouraging. I’m sure the GP will look at the numbers and be pleased, but me being unable to get off the sofa is quite the opposite 🙁
The name’s Piper. Peter Piper
Sadly I don’t have a peck of these. They might last the year if I did. A fair bit of today (at least as far as I’m concerned given that I’m not spending as much time alive these days) was … Continue reading