John Barleycorn must die

A Milestone!

Coo have just realised I managed to post every day during July!

Not intended but hopefully I will continue to post more often now my life has settled back into a more manageable routine, with no more college, teaching practice etc...

Have spent today having a family/home day, we went out to lunch at a local pub, am hosting a friends get together in the near future so, in the interests of testing out possible Sunday lunch venues for any who come to the meet up and want one, we were forced to go to a local pub and try their lunches. Its a hard job, but someone has to do it I can report it was very nice and has def. been added to the list of places to go.

Then I pottered around doing house work (washing, ironing, cleaning) and washing and chores, some arty stuff with Compostgirl, a bit of crochet and knitting and some harvesting of crops.

Have spent today harvesting Lavender and Wheat (because it is Lammas /Lughnasadh, today) also Beans, tomatoes, shallots, beans, cucumber, peppers, courgettes, spinach, spuds, beans. have you got the idea we have lots of beans?

House smalls delightfully of fresh lavender now and have also made my Lammas corn dolly, a bit green still but its my tradition to do one on this day, and then another with the last proper harvest I do.

So...F1 watched, supper eaten ( home made pate on home made toasted bread with home grown home made soup...yum!) wine now being drunk. Hic!

Compostman watching some time travel film thing on TV with the nice Irish chap from the IT Crowd in it...looks interesting but it goes on too late for me, so I am updating on here, before going to bed.

Saturday 5 good things

Well its a bit hard to think of them today as we all three are poorly with some nasty bug :-(

but here goes!
( and this covers produce for today as well....)

1 We all slept in late this morning as we all are poorly

















2 Hens laid 5 eggs ( plus a useless one from Genghis Hen )THANK YOU HENS
3 So far have around 70 lbs of spuds harvested and thats less than half the plot, so fingers crossed the blight isn't too bad
4 New AV equipment sounds good
5 Kittens and Sid seem to be getting along a little better!












AND
6 Managed to sort out Blogger problem and get Sitemeter back on blog

plus some pictures of various flowers decorating/drying yesterday ;-O






This is a Monarda didyma...Bergamot or Scarlet Bee Balm...but I have NEVER had this double flower before!!

Friday produce

Eggs 4 (Thank you Henny, Ginger, Attilla and Wednesday)

hmm....perhaps letting Henny and Ginger go back to the Eglu, leaving Thursday back in with Attilla the Hen and Genghis Hen was a bad move? as she has not laid an egg since being put back in with them....:-O

Rose petals laid out to dry, big bunches of Lavender, various flowers and herbs for drying for flower arrangements hanging up in the Study, Sage that I dried bottled for later use ( its good stuff, too!)Last lot of Lavender stripped off the stems and bottled up for later use. Also made some craft things in honour of Lughnasadh
....a corn dolly, some Lavender favours

Mmmmm I am relaxed and fragrant, now !

Some courgettes nearly ready but I will get then tomorrow morning I think
Ditto some more tomatoes, they will be just that little bit sweeter if I pick them tomorrow!