Not a lot happening

No pictures to post as our camera is not working and we need to buy a new one (will have to see what we have on the computer to see if there are any interesting pictures on there). Have not posted on the blog of late as quite frankly have not had anything really to write about. Have been very busy work wise and also have been sorting out the allotments and sowing my seeds. So far have only planted potatoes, garlic, broad beans, and borlotti beans at the allotment but hopefully in a weeks time I will have some time to do more at the allotment as I do have loads of other things to be planted up and I will ask a friend to take a few photos of it so that you can see how it has progressed.

The summer house at the bottom of the garden is coming along nicely and will try and post pictures very soon.

Have also been working on some new soaps and bath products plus a few new gift sets. Will have to see if I can get pictures of these as the web site is sadly way out of date and I must update that very soon

New Fruit Allotment

We have taken on another allotment this year which is 95% fruit the rest is herbs and Christmas trees. We are sharing this with our friend Andrew. Have to confess all the work so far has been done by under gardener and Andrew. As you can see they have worked very hard and it is looking good.

Happy Valentines Day

The Allotments

Taken by Andrew Smith

TOP DRAWER

I visited Top Drawer at Earls Court. For those that don't know this is a trade fair in London. Lots of lovely items and it seems like there where a lot more smaller companies this year. I also visited 'Snapdragons Garden' stand and met Jane. The goods and the stand looked lovely although the show was a lot quieter than I have seen before the feedback from the stall holders that I know who had a stand was very good. I suspect that only those looking to buy attended and there where a lot less lookers at this one. So there is hope for us all in the current climate. As for me I found a couple of companies I had not seen before.

If you want to see Snapdragons blog and goodies there is a link at the side. I suggest you go have a look if you are looking for a gift for anyone. Picture above are some of Snapdragons products I purchase awhile back for gifts.

Promises Promises

I promised myself I would blog more and I didn't for various reasons. The garden building took far more of my time that I anticipated where to put light switches where did I want sockets, what sort of lighting did I want, what sort of flooring did I want, tiles to pick, toilet to pick and the list went on. I know I should have given this more thought than I did before we started but stupidly I didn't.

On top of all that Christmas orders to do and then worst of all my computer went and I spent weeks without one and had to keep going to a friends to borrow there's. Thankfully my nephew has been able to retrieve lots of stuff from my old one and is currently sorting out and revamping my new one. That and some help from some very good friends I am on my way to being sorted on the computer side.

I am now hopefully back to blog once more. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New year. May 2009 be all you want it to be.

Courgette's

We had a little bit of a glut on the courgette's so I have been making various things with them including this courgette cake. It is based on Nigella's courgette cake. Since I have never seen the original recipe from the book I could not say how close it is to this as I got this recipe off the internet. But I can say this one was delicious and I recommend you give a courgette cake a go if you have any spare. This one is actually double the recipe as I needed to feed a few people with this one. It was so quick to make I even made a few more for the freezer.