This year I actually made something out of the sour, pointless red currants from the allotment: fruit leather.
It's horrible. It gets stuck to ones teeth and no one likes it. I only made it because Vom Smallhausen and Count Podgkinson foolishly picked some currants after I'd taken them up the allotment (fruit leather was the least complicated recipe I could find that used the most red currants). The red currant bush is getting dug up this winter!
View up Northrepps Road
Parasol mushroom
Escaping the heat - and Bitey - was this toad.
P. S. Apologies for my absence, I have been busy with summer and taking photos for the Grand Gardening Competition in October, or sooner??
Oh, no, wait. That wasn't me. That was Ms Scarlet.
While I have been busy with summer and taking photos for the Grand Gardening Competi- I mean, Garden Photos Event, I have also been sorting out the garden & allotment, engaged in a few social activities (pah!), exhausted myselves trying to eke out some sort of service from a couple of companies so-called "customer service" departments/teams, and have been lumbered with nieces and nephew far more often that I would have liked!
(Except for the toad, these photos are from 2nd August and I started this post on the 8th!)
Also, Ms Scarlet had locked me in her attic without food nor a bath mat - but that's a story for another time...
