25-07-25

First of all and while I am thinking of it, there won't be a post tomorrow - I have to leave earlyish to get the coach and I will be tired come the evening.

Also, Sunday's will perhaps be a bit late because of uploading and editing any half decent photos I take, not to mention stringing a few words together about Brighton!

Good morning, one and all.  It's sort of sunny right now but whether that will last remains to be seen.  I haven't checked the forecast yet.

What I have checked, obviously, is the garden and there's two happy things this morning.

Firstly and at long, long last, I have baby runners that are not just a random few that haven't gone anywhere or gone anything.  Excellent - really looking forward to runner beans with every meal and bags of them in the freezer, not to mention pestering the neighbours.  

I can dream . . .

And . . .

One of the baby corn has flowered and another has a long hard spike that will open soon.  I guess the rest are not far behind.

I got it wrong, you know.  Remember I thought I needed to plant baby corn in blocks for pollination.  Well, you certainly do for big corn but babies have to be picked just as the tassels are emerging from the top and before pollination.  So now I need to keep eyes open for babies because if you leave them too long, they are not nice.

So I could have planted them around the runners but I'm glad I didn't - there really isn't the room.

Anyway - exciting stuff.

Yesterday, being Thursday, started off with the coffee and chat over at Chris' this week.  Always good, always enjoyable, always lots of laughter.  Always a happy time.

Then I drove over to Val's and ditto.  She made a delicious soup for lunch - lentils and vegetables - and had toasted sourdough bead to dunk.  Perfect, thanks, Val.  And, of course, we had a good old chat too.

Most of the rest of the time was spent looking for fabric online with not much success.  I found a gorgeous fabric on Temu, would you believe, but it was sold out.  Thing is, I don't want to spend an awful lot until I've re-skilled myself - it's been a while.

I wonder if there are any cheap fabric shops in Brighton.  Annabeth . . .  ???

What I am going to do is buy some very cheap sheets and practise with a toile (I had to look that up) which basically is a mock up of what you want to make for fitting purposes.  All the patterns I have are multi sized and I have no idea at the moment.  So I guess it is back to Temu and I will also look elsewhere.  

Anyway, enough of that.  Today is Slimming World and then Alex is over.  At his request, we are practising shaping pizza dough because we really made a right mess of it last time.
Should be interesting!

So when I get home, Thermione will make a full batch and I will pop small amounts into bowls to rise separately.  Then, when he gets here, we can watch some YouTube videos and then have a go.

Wish me luck!!

Time to go!

Have a lovely day, everyone.  Stay safe, be happy and be good but maybe not too good.  Bye.  xx