The temperature it is a-rising...

Well I've been in the uk for the past 10 days and it was a mixed bag of emotions.

I had a unexpected funeral to go to, and did the Great North Swim for the 3rd time... closer ever closer to the elusive sub 30 mins!

It was lovely to spend time with the crotchet girls and actually it was nice to experience the great british weather as well.

Back here Mavis has laid her first (curiously small for such a big chicken) white egg and they are now spending a lot of time sitting in the shade.

Tomorrow we are off to the beach... as the weather forecast is muttering darkly about it reaching 36-39 degrees. (Tig I know you're secretly thrilled by this information!).

I dug up two rows of spuds this morning... and despite the plants looking sickly we do have some potatoes... admittedly not very big or plentiful but we do have them!

Also I have roasted some beetroot and salted the first batch of cornichons... all good and exciting!

Mirabelles here we come.

Lifting wires...

Well we've started the levage and its harder work than we initially thought. Or rather what I thought. Almost everything is!

We are also having an ongoing saga with the sprayer, just at the point when it looks like we might need it soon as maybe (just maybe) it might rain.

All standard for us.

We've had a very lovely week with friends all round. We went to Bordeaux and rode on the boris-bikes there.

This is very disjointed and I've just noticed that it is both 11.30pm and that my laptop battery has about 2 mins left.

Will write more soon.