June 2006 Archives
Several clusters on the roof terrace ones, and some fairly well developed ones on the less flourishing fire escape balcony plants. Woo hoo!
On the rocket front, we sampled out first pickings on Saturday, and very pleasantly peppery they were too.
Garlic needs a little longer - my test bulb-lift was about the size of a large spring onion, with cloves not wholly developed. Not that it will be allowed to go to waste.....
We had an amazing sunset last night - reds, pinks, mauves, purples vibrant enough to prompt us to pause the video (My So-Called Life for 1994 US teenage angst nostalgia) to take some photos from the roof terrace!
Still no tomatoes on the tomato plants up there.... and they are looking much much healthier than the plants on the lounge balcony, which have one each. Bizarre.
... on Saturday night. Lots of people, lots of fun - even if I was a lame early leaver. It doesn't seem that long ago that we celebrated Haddock's 5th birthday, and I was a real newbie. "Matured Phishes"? Maybe not - although "More babies, Less hair" would be true. "Smoked / pickled/ steamed"? Almost universally.
And [Monday now] Tom Coates's photo of Phil, me and him is the top search result if you search for "haddock" on Flickr... for now at least. No one else seems to have manages to take/upload any pictures.... me included.
After a lovely Saturday - including a sunny afternoon chez TBJR - and not too late a night (for me at least), Phil and I managed to rise and shine in time to meet up with the key movers and shakers in the crowd formerly known as the Sunday Brunch Bunch (RIP) for bagels at the Columbia Caf