..AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS

A day much like yesterday, tied to my desk while it rained outside. But at 3 pm it stopped and by 4 pm it was quite pleasant to work in the greenhouse and to collect some veg from the plot for dinner. Komatsu (Japanese spinach) tonight with garlic chives and broad bean shoots. The 100 and 1000 tomatoes growing in the hanging baskets are living up to their name, but the y sorely need some sunshine to ripen. Everything else seems to be OK apart from some slug damage and I think we could lift the first Desiree potatoes soon. Blackcurrants are ready to be picked, just waiting on a dry day. Lettuce is coming out of our ears, so we had a wonderful bowl of it for lunch, with lots of mint, lovage and some peas - the peas were frozen, ours won't be ready for a long time yet.

Anyone knows what munches through my onion stalks, leaving them limp and useless so that the bulb stops growing? Slugs don't normally like the alliums, but I can't imagine what else it would be. Same thing happened last year to an otherwise extremely healthy crop.

THREE GOOD THINGS:
Eating one's own produce - nothing beats it taste wise
Getting through a mountain of work in a short time
Happy news from over the pond