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The courgettes are now well into the burgeoning stage, and going rather too fast for us to be able to keep up. I shall have to investigate how to freeze bat-sized courgettes. Beans have begun, and the mange touts are still cropping—we had generous green veg for lunch today, together with a reasonably sized yellow courgette.
But the star of the show this year are the blackberries, into which I put no cultivational effort at all. Today we picked I think the fourth crop, and I have just finished freezing them as we're off to a funeral tomorrow and will not be needing blackberry crumble until Sunday at the earliest, by which time there will be more to pick. They are all growing in the most hostile possible territory—either through the holly bushes (which are berrying like nobody's business this year!), or intermingled with mahonia and an evil thorned bush whose name presently escapes me. These are at the front of the house. At the back they are growing with the snowberry bushes, which are not of themselves hostile but which are host to what almost sounds like a swarm of bees. It's so noisy! Still, blackberries are worth a bit of pain.
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My chorus did a concert last night in the middle of nowhere, Norfolk. My satnav gave me good directions but I had it muted and kept missing turns through expecting them to be a bit further away, so we performed what must have been something like a jigsaw piece route in order to get back on track. The venue, a church, was concealed behind many trees, so it was just as well I had passengers, or I might never have found it. But the concert went well and the audience participation part was very jolly.
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We have been watching The Crowded Room on Apple TV, with Tom Holland doing a magnificent job acting his little socks off. Will watch the final ep this evening when Beast returns from his rehearsal, otherwise we'd have to leave it for several days, and things are tense! Anybody else watching anything on Apple TV? It's a pity those shows are going largely unseen, because there is some good stuff on there. There's a series called Hijack with Idris Elba as a not-violent hero, also worth your time.
Aha, Beast is back. I shall post.
But the star of the show this year are the blackberries, into which I put no cultivational effort at all. Today we picked I think the fourth crop, and I have just finished freezing them as we're off to a funeral tomorrow and will not be needing blackberry crumble until Sunday at the earliest, by which time there will be more to pick. They are all growing in the most hostile possible territory—either through the holly bushes (which are berrying like nobody's business this year!), or intermingled with mahonia and an evil thorned bush whose name presently escapes me. These are at the front of the house. At the back they are growing with the snowberry bushes, which are not of themselves hostile but which are host to what almost sounds like a swarm of bees. It's so noisy! Still, blackberries are worth a bit of pain.
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My chorus did a concert last night in the middle of nowhere, Norfolk. My satnav gave me good directions but I had it muted and kept missing turns through expecting them to be a bit further away, so we performed what must have been something like a jigsaw piece route in order to get back on track. The venue, a church, was concealed behind many trees, so it was just as well I had passengers, or I might never have found it. But the concert went well and the audience participation part was very jolly.
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We have been watching The Crowded Room on Apple TV, with Tom Holland doing a magnificent job acting his little socks off. Will watch the final ep this evening when Beast returns from his rehearsal, otherwise we'd have to leave it for several days, and things are tense! Anybody else watching anything on Apple TV? It's a pity those shows are going largely unseen, because there is some good stuff on there. There's a series called Hijack with Idris Elba as a not-violent hero, also worth your time.
Aha, Beast is back. I shall post.