Another week gone by with mixed-up weather. On nice days I've been outside and - amongst other things - have picked strawberries, peas and habas, frozen the small beans and put the large pods to dry for next years seeds. We had a day out at the coast to stock-up on Wednesday, it was a gorgeous day but when we got home realised that there had been rain here as the washing that I'd left out was wet. Yesterday was lovely too, I cut down one bed of habas, stripped off the leaves for the compost, put the stalks to dry for the fire, picked off the pods for drying and dug the roots back in to the ground. Then mounded up the soil to make large water channels down each side and transplanted 20 cauliflower plants. I have made a 'cage' for them with pea netting and sticks to prevent the cabbage white butterfly getting at them.
First thing this morning the sun was shining and my plan - plan A - was to go and hoe over the tomato beds ready to transplant them. I went up to empty the compost bucket, picked another 600 grams of strawberries but as I was picking the sun went in, the wind picked up, the sky went black and thunder started to rumble. End of this mornings plans then! The heavens have just opened - large splodges of rain coming down and as I write this, Pip has run indoors and is curled up under my chair. She was hiding in the kennel with Monty but really doesn't like thunder at all and normally hides under our bed. With ears as big as she has, it probably sounds very loud!
So it's plan B for today which normally involves cooking, both for tonight and for the freezer. And trying to be creative with strawberries - we don't want strawberries and cream every night and although we did a stock-up in the week we forgot to buy any more cream! So far we've eaten them as a trifley thing, with cream, sliced and sugared, with cereal for breakfast - does anybody have any more ideas?
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