The most profound of pleasures…

I’m a blunderer really.

Another one today.

We were expecting a big group of Notts Wildlife Trust young people for lunch. Cakes and biscuits and soup and bread made in a great team effort I moved on to press-ganging a motley crew of chairs into action.

One was in need of a cloth and I was directed to the old-cloths box.

Old cloth in hand I set about the dirty chair. Only to be challenged.

‘What are you doing?’

‘Wiping this chair’

‘What with?’

It then transpired that I’d mistaken the old-cloth box for the ironing basket and was using an especially-valued top that wasn’t a rag at all.

There were recriminations.

The most profound of pleasures today: a five minute visit down the steps to the vegetable garden with trug and knife ..

June trug..

To include in tea tonight:

This is what eating seasonally with complete confidence in the quality of growing methods and requiring zero transport costs looks like.

Carrots Early Nantes 150g

Beetroot Golden Globe 400g

Beetroot Boltardy 150g

Spring onions White Lisbon 50g

Calabrese Marathon (Broccoli) 700g

Broad Beans Aquadulce podded 80g

Kohl Rabi 500g

Courgette Atena polka 50g

Courgette Defender 50g

Seven species - all grown organically.

And yes - delicious!

17kg of food harvested this season!