Wednesday

Morning, everyone.  It's a horrible day out there this morning - rain, wind - yuck.  The last few days have been pretty gusty and I'm so glad I tied the runner beans to the fence, as you can see.  If I hadn't, the lot would be down by now as it's very top heavy.  Must give the canes a wider base next year.

I've just braved the rain to get freezer stuff in and to pick some tomatoes.  When it is this damp, blight could be in the offing and I want to harvest as much as I can before it hits.  No signs yet, but I'm on the look out.

There are three rather oddly shaped cucumbers but nothing else developing and I think that will be my lot.  They've been OK this year so no regrets about buying more to replace the ones that collapsed.

The raspberries are coming in now - just a few at a time, fine for with yogurt.  I could bag and freeze them, I suppose, but frozen raspberries are easy to find in the shops and I'm only growing a few.

Beth came round after having here eyes checked.  Actually, she parked here, wheelchaired herself to the local clinic, had the drops in and her tests done, wheelchaired back, had lunch here and by around four her vision was back to normal again and she was safe to drive home.  So that worked really well and it was nice to have her here.

And I bought the flour from Marriages and did all the ironing so that's all sorted.

Finally, I heard from Matt the Plumber.  He can start on October 1st and it should take three days.  It will be nice to get that all done, dusted and paid for.

Today I have two sourdough loaves to finish off, one for Beth and one for Lindsey.  They have been cold-fermenting overnight and the dough is now warming up again so I can finish the whole process in an hour or so.  The only other thing really is personal training this afternoon.  The rest of the day is the usual houseworky/kitcheny stuff.  There's no way I want to walk out anywhere, not in this weather.

Not a terribly exciting day but #Real Life.

I hope you're getting nicer weather your way.  xx