Saturday 7th

My first very small vegetable harvest from my new garden at the beginning of the week.

 I've had a few strawberries from the 6 plants I brought here and  a few raspberries from the canes that were already here and then a small cucumber from the pathetic cucumber plant that didn't like being outside. .......very pleased to be able to add the 'Growing Food' label at the bottom of the post and I'm looking forward to next year already. 

On the table this week a small jug of Hydrangeas from the garden. This was the bush that looked half-dead when I moved here in May- caught by a late frost but it recovered well. I've looked up the right time for pruning as there are 3 different Hydrangeas here that provide late summer colour so it would be a good idea to look after them properly.

 

 

 

Catching up on Yesterday at the Olympics ..... Day 14

In between baking things I saw a bit of the Ladies Madison cycle event. I heard someone explaining it on the radio before Chris Boardman (one of GB's first cycling medalists from years ago) explained it on the TV and still hadn't a clue except there are dozens of cyclists on the track all at once and it's a sort of a relay with sprint laps, it goes on for 120 laps  and there were lots of crashes! Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny were just amazing, dominating all the way, in this first ever Olympic Ladies Madison. Laura has now won medals in  3 Olympics and has 5 Gold Medals!!

I need to make a note of the sports in a Modern Pentathlon because the question of which 5 events are included came up in a quiz once (Fencing, show jumping, swimming,running and shooting all on one day). I watched some of it and saw the GB lady Kate French win another GOLD - things are going well. Also saw Laura Muir get a well deserved silver medal in the 1,500 metres on the track.

There was another bronze on the bikes for Jack Carlin,a bronze in the women's hockey and yet another in the 4 x 100 metres for the GB women with the Men's 4 x 100 finishing with GB losing by a 100th of a second to Italy but a silver is really good considering some of the dreadful years when the baton was so often dropped.

GB ended day 14 with 58 medals and back to 4th in the medal table.

I'm going to miss watching the Olympics everyday but not too much as Eldest Daughter and Grandson are staying for a few days and after they go I really need to get back to gardening and moving the soil from bag to the veg beds rather than sitting about half the morning! But well done to the BBC, knowing we will be missing the Olympics they've started teasing us with news of the celebs (those known and those unknown!) taking part in Strictly Come Dancing later in the year.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. I may be a bit busy over the next few days but there are a few posts in drafts so they might get published if I have time. 

Back in a short while 

Sue