This week promises to be a sunny one, so I am making a little list of jobs to do in the garden: mowing the lawn, weeding, planting out tomatoes & pumpkins, sowing lettuce seeds, earthing up 2nd lot of spuds... That should keep me busy! And I suppose I will have to water the veggies as well, since there is no rain at all forecast for the next week or so.
I fear my broad beans have not survived the onslaught by the slugs, so I will plant some new seeds and hope that the protective netting "cage" I bought will be enough to protect them. Since the pumpkins are supposed to be going out into the same cage, I do really hope this works as I doubt there'll be anything left if the slugs find a way through it.
In the park this morning everything was peaceful and glorious! I saw a blue tit flying into one of the nesting boxes, so I guess there are baby blue tits in the making there. I wasn't fast enough to take a photo but it was nice to watch what was going on.
I did take this slightly wobbly picture though - holding the dog lead in one hand with dog pulling and trying to take a photo is not easy :-)
Oh, and on the baking front a new favourite has been added to the list: pineapple cake! Recently, I made a pear loaf cake which was ok but not that fruity - well, I have amended the recipe using fresh pineapple instead and the cake was absolutely delicious! Very fragrant and so yummy that by the time I thought of taking a picture, the cake had already disappeared. Oops - maybe next time!
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