Sunday 22 April 2007

Easter part two...


Here I am! I am not sure if I’ve got this right, yet, so I’m going for short and sweet, then I can back off and see how it looks.

I just grabbed a few minutes to write this in between churning rhubarb crumble ice-cream and preparing the veg to go with slow roasted lamb for tonight’s dinner. The lamb has been cooking on the oven’s slow setting since just after breakfast and smells gorgeous. I need to pop out to the Moor garden soon and pick some purple sprouting broccoli to go with it. We’ll also have a salad – also from the garden – of pea tips, red Russian kale, mizuna, spinach and sorrel.

All this is a belated Easter dinner for Granddad Peter who had flu on Easter Sunday and decided to stay in bed with a hot toddy instead of coming over here. So we have another load of Easter eggs arriving when he has finished patrolling the Haven waterway in his rigid inflatable. Dad’s still a bit of an action man, despite being in his late 60s. He looks after the lighthouses at St Anne’s head and (occasionally) at Strumble Head near Fishguard. The rest of the time he charges about on the waterway keeping an eye on drunken yachtsmen and advising them on their behaviour (before they collide with oil tankers or the Pembroke to Rosslare ferry).

I’ve also managed to squeeze in some planting today – annual flowers around the edge of the carrots on the Moor garden. This is designed (according to Monty Don on Gardener’s World on Friday) to confuse the carrot fly. Theoretically they will see the nigellas, calendulas, Californian poppies and cornflowers and not notice the carrots hiding behind them. Time will tell. I just wish I could find something to plant that would confuse the slugs. In the meantime I’ll stick to offering them a nice drink of beer.

10 comments:

  1. Found you! Thank goodness - I was getting sweaty palms thinking I'd never crack this! This time next week, we'll all be old hands - but I've got to sort my photo thingy out - yours are great!x

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  2. I always wanted to be a lighthouse keeper. I was deeply sad when I found that trinity house didn't(then) take women as keepers.

    Loe your blog !

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  3. Loved your blog and photo - and especially your description of belated Easter dinner. It all sounds so fresh and yummy.

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  4. What a great looking blog , like the design and your photos lovely! How did you do that! Good read too!

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  5. Lovely blog and photo. Your dinner sounded pretty good as well. I am trying to plant by the moon as well(but don't have much space to do so at the moment). We have similar reaing tastes too!

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  6. Dear Mags, it's beyond me how you can describe yourself as 'occupation: housewife' in your profile! Evidently there's a lot more than just housewifery going on here - and all your lovely foodie things have just reminded me - dinner! Your page is looking great. -x

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  7. Helloo from over the hill!

    I saw that thing about confusing carrot fly with flowers. At least if your carrots all get ravaged, at least you'll have a pretty plot!

    Loving the drawer/seed tray combo. Pretty and useful. x

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  8. Beautiful Blog page I will be back Blossom

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  9. lovely blog. glad you are here. envy you your 22 acres. we only have 2. am trying the confusing carrot fly techinque this year, will let you know.

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  10. Matron has just popped in to tell you not to worry, the chat room has gone down temporarily owing to an error on Google which is preventing us cleaning out the fosses to make room for new posts!

    You can still blog away merrily here on your own page, and to leave comments on all the others.

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