After the squalls and after rebuilding

Thank you for all the lovely comments about yesterday’s Fly Agaric and the King Alfred’s Cakes fungi. They were both very interesting specimens.

Our walk this morning started in the pouring rain and ended in sparking sunlight as a succession of showers passed over.

As we passed the allotment we noticed that last night’s gusty squalls had wrecked the brassica cage, blowing the netting off, up ending the pole structure, snapping one of the poles and blowing the frame across the plot. It took much wet work to reassemble the frame, rescuing the netting, dragging it over the frame and securing it again ready for the next game.

I’ve complained to the company about the lack of rigidity in the frame which is 3m x 2m. As supplied it came with no base or bracing poles. It was a poor decision to buy it on our part. Their only advice was that in strong winds the netting should be taken down. They didn’t seem to understand how impractical that suggestion is.

In between times I prepared and cooked some apple chutney and tonight’s dinner and managed a brief chat with Chris and Landon in California. They’re both self isolating as a child in Landon’s class at daycare tested positive for Covid even though the child was asymptomatic.

Chris has just finished baking a Victoria sponge, a later photograph showed Landon tucking into a large slice.