We harvested our own onions today at the allotment and put them out to cure.
Of course, there were more courgettes to harvest too so I’ve made more of Kath’s Soup and we had Courgette Bhajis with our evening meal.
There was a leaf like a tiny vertical sculpture in the front garden today.
In mid January, I sowed thousands of onion seeds while at Community Roots. Later, we potted them on and on March 26th they were planted out. Today, 8,000 onions have been harvested and put into the sunshine to cure!
This is only the first two rows, lots more to come!
For dinner tonight we have had our own beans, Purple Teepee and Fine Green to accompany the main dish.
The main dish was Oven Roasted Sweet Potato and Courgette Tortilla, delicious!
For those who asked, I’ve put the Courgette soup recipe on my Recipes – savoury page, called Kath’s Courgette Soup. I’ll get the cake recipe up soon.
The weather is gorgeous and our neighbour invited us for a swim. I didn’t dip but enjoyed the company and the shade and watching the baby seagull which fledged yesterday.
Thanks, Sue, for the photo.
We have so many courgettes growing at the allotment! Today I have made two pints of courgette soup, (using my Dear friend Kath’s recipe, Kath to whom my blog is dedicated) made a Courgette and Lemon Cake and given eight to the neighbour with the pool!
Two raspberries picked today and served with the Courgette Cake
Sitting in the shade on a beautiful day today all I could hear was the buzzing of bees all busy at the flowers.
Our Sweet corn is doing really well and the silks in today’s sunshine were very pretty. 
I no longer have little girls who need their plaits each day but when we have harvested shallots, I get great pleasure from plaiting them up for storage.
I love this new word and, as a friend said today, it sounds better than having a ‘senior moment!”
At the allotment this evening, collecting more courgettes than we can ever eat, I spotted the flower of a globe artichoke across the plots – a magnificent thing. (I’m going to put courgettes/zucchinis by the front gate for people to help themselves.)
After breakfast with dear friends, we took a stroll around Boscawen Gardens.
In Truro, we spotted some little letters from a bracelets in the water of the Leats.
Lost letters in the Leats
From the top of the car park we could just see the tops of the three spires of the cathedral.
Three Spires of Truro Cathedral
I went to choir this morning and loved every moment. Singing is so good for us! Here we are singing Pachabelle’s Canon, a version I learned at a workshop at WOMAD several years ago. I was given permission by our lovely leader to sing all the parts (as I used to do before Covid) so if you look carefully, you’ll see me on the move as each new part joins in. Thank you to Sue for recording this today.
This is the view from our rehearsal room. Aren’t we so very lucky?! (And there’s an interrobang for you!)
Early on in the mist and later across the river…..
We had blueberries to use up so I made a Blueberry Cake, not my usual recipe as I didn’t have enough eggs. This new one tastes as good but all the berries migrated to the bottom!
Delicious lemony icing
A slice with crème fraiche and vanilla
I’m back!
In the first photo, you may notice, top right, the little ‘pixie cap’ on one of the yet-to-open Californian Poppies. The short video shows the little bit of magic that I witnessed this morning, the pixie cap hovering in the air. It seems that a silk thread from a spider making her web, caught the little piece as it left the bloom and then the breeze kept it moving in the air, apparently freely, for hours. 
It was my first trip in a week to the allotment this evening and there were crops to harvest, some rather large! Thank you very much to S who has been watering our tomatoes while we’ve been out of action.
A bunch of lovely words came my way today, some I knew already, though I only learned columella nasi last week as that is where I had my surgery. I am mending well and I thank you all for your concern and kindness. My favourite of the words new to me is ‘overmorrow.’ I am hoping to feel right to go to choir overmorrw (i.e. on Thursday!)
Some new words
Garden posy of Sweet Peas for SIL to brighten up their lodging
Spotted in Perranwell on the way to Trelissick Gardens
The Tower at Trelissick where my brother and SIL are spending their last week in Cornwall.
Found in the shop
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