Garden Reaping

Gardening is fun!

It is harvesting time for us in our tiny plot of soil in our pots. So far I have collected two ripe tomatoes, that tasted totally tasty with my breakfast today, and while we were sitting outside we both got a bit impatient with the potatoes so we decided to have a look. All the plants had died off so it would be now or never if we were to reap the rewards of our harvest. I turned the growing bag over and spilled the soil containing our nuggets (potatoes) onto the pavers so we could have a propper rumage around. It was at this point that Sarah let out a squeal of dellight. Eureka! We had a potato.

After going throught the whole bag we ended up with almost 30 potatoes of varying size and this is only one of the two bags that we were growing. It was really rewarding to have something after all this time. You can't see them growing like the tomatoes but that made it much better after the discovery. So now we just need somebody to come over and eat all our potatoes, as the reason we planted them in the first place was because we hadn't eaten all the ones we had before. Want to come ove for some hot chips?

Football on Saturday

We went to watch mark's football team, Gillingham, play against Hereford at Hereford today. The match ended nil all but was a good match. We got a spot right on the fence about 1 metre away from the pitch. Mark sent me a picture from his local newsletter about his football team and we managed to get ourselves into the picture. Can you spot me?

Hint, we are in the front on the right next to the man with the grey jumper.

First onions?

Well I pulled up a couple of onions from the pots in the backyard and they appear to be onions, if you could call them that. They were a bit on the wee side, especially compared to the garden I saw today. This dude had a bed of onions that were all larger than cricket balls. So next time I will be sure to plant the onions at the correct time of the year. And also in bigger pots.

Awesome van shelf

Last weekend I got myself in order and made this little shelf for the van. It folds out so that there is a little shelf to put things on like plates or drinks. It was really satisfying making it, using my hands and also doing some woodwork.

The garden growing,

Here are some pictures of the garden as it has been growing over our summer. The tomatoes are going good, the capsicum's are filling out the the petunias are starting to almost take over.

Camping in the Gower

After a morning of lazing about on Saturday, Sarah came home form errands and encouraged me to go camping in the gower for the night. We quickly packed up and headed off to the Gower, hoping for a campsite nearest to Roshilly but when we arrived there it turned out that the campsite and the carpark were full. So we turned around and headed off to try and find another campsite. We ended up finding one the next beach over. It was really quiet and turned out to be a rather nice campsite. The fields were lush grass and there was not that many other campers there. With the sun setting really late and the light hanging around till nearly half ten at night we sat around and cooked dinner before lazing around our little fire pit.

Friday.

Had a lot of driving today in my company car. It turned out that today my satnav decided to send of across some really different routes. The first time the nav sent me over one of the passes between valleys the cloud descended so that the visability was down to about 100 M. It was really cool. Later on in the afternoon when I had decided to head home the satnav sent me along the route which took me along this single track road. This is where I took this picture. There was a huge slag pile of coal in the left of the picture.