The current heatwave continues much to everyone's joy. People were reporting temperatures up to 30C in Devon. The waves are 4-6ft and clean so I expect everyone will be flocking to the beaches tomorrow.
I had a little painting to finish in the morning (Speedy has acquired some racing stripes of white gloss paint on his side), and then I took myself outside for a polishing session. The door handles were put on by the previous owner so they are not anything special but they do look a lot better for a proper polish. Now that I can work my MP4 player I was able to listen to an audio book, The Hobbit, to while away the time. I also did some cutting back of the purple loosestrife. I originally grew this from seed and apart from cutting it back in autumn, it looks after itself and makes a good splash of tall colour in the late summer.
The raspberries are producing some autumn fruit which the birds don't seem to have noticed so I am able to grab a tasty handful when I go to hang washing out on the line. The gate into the chickens' run is one of the last places to catch the sun in the garden and had attracted a few sunbathing butterflies. Here's hoping this weather continues for a while yet.
I had a little painting to finish in the morning (Speedy has acquired some racing stripes of white gloss paint on his side), and then I took myself outside for a polishing session. The door handles were put on by the previous owner so they are not anything special but they do look a lot better for a proper polish. Now that I can work my MP4 player I was able to listen to an audio book, The Hobbit, to while away the time. I also did some cutting back of the purple loosestrife. I originally grew this from seed and apart from cutting it back in autumn, it looks after itself and makes a good splash of tall colour in the late summer.
The raspberries are producing some autumn fruit which the birds don't seem to have noticed so I am able to grab a tasty handful when I go to hang washing out on the line. The gate into the chickens' run is one of the last places to catch the sun in the garden and had attracted a few sunbathing butterflies. Here's hoping this weather continues for a while yet.
2 comments:
Oh I love raspberries. Will you make jam out of them?
It would have to be a very small pot of jam but I have lots of blackcurrants in the freezer waiting to be made into jam and I may even pick some sloes or blackberries if I can find them.
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