Wonder what makes this dahlia the best in Show?

Another day of total fire ban

It's not as hot as yesterday but it is so windy. There are bushfire warnings coming through on the radio. We are staying home and I am spending the time looking up book recommendations from a friend that I can get on Audible UK. I am listening to a good story at the moment, it is about a Welshman from the Rronda Valley who had an allotment. I am really enjoying it as it combines tips and tricks about growing vegies with some good old memories of growing up in South Wales near where my dad came from and where we used to spend our long summer holidays with my Auntie Florry in Pontardawe

Hope it will be cooler tomorrow.

Latest acquisition - just watch it grow!

Out with the old and in with the new! After a bit of googling we set out to find a bamboo which would be OK indoors and just hope this Himalayan Weeping Bamboo will thrive with us. The stand is just temporary, hope Tim or George will make me something a bit more interesting until it grows enough to stand on its own (two feet!)

Boo hoo!

Sybil died!

I finally decided I could not sit through another Midsummer murders so we turned over to Downton Abbey! Some of the characters looked familiar from years ago, and soon there was not a dry eye at no 28!

I was going to wait till my number came up at the library, as Heidi ordered it for me, but I was about no 96 so I guess unless they have a few copies I will be waiting for quite a while!

Whilst on the subject, we went to The State yesterday to see Anna Karennina. I am not sure what Ken thought of it, the costumes were great but the peculiar Theatre setting was weird, imagine the smell if they really had had that horse racing scene indoors! Trust me to get down to the basics!

It's up!

My succulent picture was ready to hang so Tim came over and put it up on the wall. It looks good and it will be interesting to see how it goes on over time.

Healthy lunch?

How's this, homemade sourdough toast with tomatoes, basil and garlic, drizzled with a little good olive oil, yum, now off to the community garden, it's Monday, although at the moment nearly every day is garden day as there are always things to harvest and not enough of us to do it!

It takes a lot of Roma tomatoes

to produce a few dehydrated tomatoes, but at least it is not so labour intensive as sauce and chutney making!