Sarahmade

Tom has already given an account of our weekend but I thought I would add to his thoughts. I think almost everyone had a bit of a rainy one but it pleases me to see that by camping on the southern tip of the Isle of Wight we had the wettest.

It wasn’t always so wet. Friday and Saturday were very sunny and cycled through some lovely country lanes, past some peaceful cows.

Prompting me to tell Tom the popular joke ‘What’s black and white and comes out the Isle of Wight ferry?’. Prompting me to remember why I don’t tell jokes more often.

We are just at the beginning of the endless comment on the Blair years but I think rather than listening to the journalists I’m just going to listen to the people on the street like this old lady on the BBC website: “Iraq will always stand over him, the poor chap, he meant well. Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, but I think it was really none of our business.” To the point.

As an update to my earlier post I have just realised how large Tom and Gemma’s allotment is. 30ft x 80ft. Wow.

I think our growing space is about 1ft x 10ft.

We will probably get one meal out of ours.

As we live in London we have to make use of every available cm of the space we rent. We don’t have a garden but we do have seven window boxes and are currently deciding how get the most out of them by growing a little bit of food. I wonder how much rent we are paying per window box? I wonder if we will be growing the most expensive fruit and veg we have ever had…although no…Borough Market exists for that.

So to compliment Tom Smith (who had a birthday yesterday – happy birthday!) and Gemma and their ambitious plans for their new allotment I would like to present our plans on a smaller scale. Tom and Gemma have acquired a greenhouse…we have two Tupperware bottoms, one on top of the other. Tom and Gemma have a shed…we don’t have a shed. That’s where is ends actually. But I bet they haven’t got their bed directly next to their strawberry patch.

Warning: don’t sneeze near your plans or your plants fly away.

I’m talking about eggs again.

I’m afraid I am going against the popular saying and I am actually putting all my eggs in one basket. But it is a really great basket.

I can now see all of my google sites at iGoogle. All on one page. With the addition of things like the countdown tool which is counting down to my trip to the Isle of Wight (only 24 days to go).