Delicious waffles with maple syrup, blueberries, homegrown raspberries and creme fraiche – a breakfast treat. 
Category Archives: allotment
Breakfast, Peace and A Poem
Raspberries, Gladiolus and Chocolate Crackle
We are still picking raspberries!
I was also surprised by there being a single white Gladiolus at the allotment.
Blown over but still gorgeous
More chocolate crackle needed tonight after more hours of decorating. Made in minutes , it takes longer to cool than to cook!
Cooling and ready to slice
Many Hands……
Great afternoon at the allotment with many people turning out to help with the clear up and to enjoy the homemade cakes and hot chocolate on offer.
Thanks to Sue for the photo.
Thanks to Mike for the group photo
Storm Ciaran and Comfort Food
Thank you to all those of you who sent messages about the Storm Ciaran. It was wild and has caused problems for many but we are okay. Our only casualty was poor WellyDog being blown over. Elsewhere there have been many trees and power lines down, blocking roads (I couldn’t go to choir), sheds down, slates, walls and fences down, trampolines blown away and some flooding around the coast. As always, communities are working together to help others. We will be at our allotment on Saturday as there has been considerable damage to sheds, greenhouses and poly tunnels and a “mend it together’ working party has been called.
Welly Dog in better weather, in our meadow
We’ve hunkered down so I baked some Chocolate Crispies and made a Chicken and Leek Pie for tonight’s meal.
Seaweed, Swan and Raspberries
It was a beautiful morning with rain promised later so off we went to Swanpool beach to collect seaweed to mulch and feed the veggie beds at the lottie. There were a few families at the beach and more at the cafe where we had hot chocolates after filling our bags. 
Then there was a shower and a rainbow across the pool where there were ducks, swans, coots and cormorants. 
We covered the empty beds at the allotment with seaweed and I was reminded, when I saw the multicolours and shapes of what we collected today, of a project I did at Truro County Grammar School many years ago. The project was to collect many varieties, which we dried, pressed and named. I wish I could remember the names of all the varieties now.
A corner of one of the beds
There were many raspberries still to be harvested at the lottie today, enough for a little bowl each this evening.
Dahlias
Tidying up the lottie again today, I picked Dahlias, Marigolds and Verbena Bonariensis. 
Before, After and Chicken and Leek Pie
Our few weeks away having adventures were wonderful though the weeds at our allotment took advantage of our absence and went mad! We’ve spent three hours today weeding followed by a delicious Chicken and Leek Pie using some of our harvested leeks.
Before
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After
Before
After
Before
After, still more to do
We really enjoyed our pie after all that work in the sunshine. 
Jewels, Cake and Route 66
While we were away some dear friends visited next door for our lovely neighbour’s birthday and they left me a box of mixed ‘jewels’ for my glass work. I’m looking forward to getting back to it and creating some beautiful angels with pretty decorations.
Thank you C.
Our lovely neighbour Sue-next-door had an emergency operation yesterday to sort out a detached retina and today I made her the most delicious Rhubarb Cake, which we were introduced to in Arizona, to aid her recovery.
Rhubarb cake with freshly picked rhubarb from our allotment.
We travelled some of the old Route 66 on our way north to the Grand Canyon.
Route 66
Lunch at a diner where our waitress was happy to let me have a photo of her and her much-coveted t-shirt!
Long empty road
Church with red cliffs behind
The Navajo Bridge
The Vermillion Cliffs
We’re Back, Glimmers and Produce
Hello again Dear Reader!
We’ve been away having adventures, much of the time in a wifi desert but I have been spotting beautiful things for you and over the next few posts, as we sort our 100s of photos, I’ll share some of the ‘glimmers’ we have been experiencing in Arizona, New Mexico and Georgia as we have spent time with people we love for the first time since 2019.
Beautiful hanks of dyed wool at The Cameron Trading Post on our way up to the Grand Canyon, North Rim
Three weeks ago we left tomatoes in various stages of ripeness and came home to a bowlful of glorious ripened ones which are now all in a delicious tomato sauce for having with pasta.
There was even more wonderful produce to be harvested in our allotment!
Enormous courgette/zucchini, more tomatoes, rhubarb (for a special cake) and raspberries.
To explain Glimmers if the term is new to you as it was to me. 
Tomatoes and Figs
Such a lot of tomatoes to ripen up!
Our lovely neighbour gave us a fig from her tree and it was truly scrumptious.
