I Love Summer Pudding

Got it right this time! So, as well as making odd little chequebook holders I also made my favourite food ever...SUMMER PUDDING!!! It's amazing, if you have not made it look it up NOW although you will have to wait overnight before you can eat it!


Lot's of my family and friends have summer birthdays, so have had loads of fun wrapping, here's my current favourite, the prezzie is a secret though...

My garden even managed to survive our holiday unwatering (must have rained), I love my pretty herbs and my runner beans are so so tall. All for now xxxx

Big Garden Post

Hello All! Sorry it has been so long, have been having technical (and laziness) difficulties but I have lots to show you as soon as the camera charges! 1st exiciting thing is the garden, I cannot believe how much veg we will hopefully have, although I bet it all fruits whilst we are on holiday!

Firstly an art shot, sorry about the ridiculous number of photos but I am slightly over excitied!!

Above I labelled a picture, doubt it is at all readable but I might try and link to a bigger one if I can (get me trying to be all technical), if not I will email a giant copy if you want it!

Here's the unadulterated version, and a side view below:

An from now on it's individual veggies, fruits and flowers, hope you like xxxx

And here's the garden before we mowed the lawn!

My 'Greenhouse'

Sorry about the massively long post! I took some (ok lots) of photos of my plants that have currently taken over my house. They seem to have the lounge all to themselves now and have moved into the spare room and sewing room too.

Here's a pretty gherkin spiral to kick things off...


So, this is the lounge, with tomatoes, chillis, gherkins, spring onions, parsely, sage and strawberries on the windowsill. On the table in the middle there are some massive courgettes and far too many aubergines (15, anyone want one??).

Also hiding in the lounge there is red and normal basil...

...and some beetroots, which are starting to form tubers, v exciting.

The strawberries are already starting to crop which is fun, and we have a small courgette going, I hope it stays yellow they always taste more fun!

Here's my pretty beetroots:

I also have some red peppers (just germinated) and some string beans trying to spout whilst being warmed by the fishtank.

Some of my supermarket garlic was spouting so I potted it up too.

Then in the sewing room we have cucumbers, with beautiful yellow tenderills, and an onion (which I thought was off but we planted for an experiment) doing ok in the middle. I also have some gifted radishes from a friend, but the cucumbers are swamping them a bit so might need to move them.

The spare room also has sugarsnap peas and mange tout as well as baby corn and carrots.

I really like the corn, has to be the prettiest after the gherkins I think!

I also have some things outside but enough is enough for now! Back soon with crafts but work is very busy so I am a bit behind on the creative stakes.

Garden in the Sun

Just a few more sunny garden pictures to celebrate my fast ending Easter holiday, 2 more days of relaxing and making and good company to go, fingers crossed for good weather!

Amazing Few Days

LOOK AT THE WEATHER! It has been the most amazing few days, I have had a lovely time with my favourite London people going to museums and shopping (will show exciting purchases in another post) and eating lovely food and today was so sunny and productive!





I felt justified in wearing exciting and impractical clothes to go to the garden centre as it was sunny, so I wore my new London bought shoes and my favourtie straw hat! I went shopping and then bought lots of fruit and made my favourite lunch with some innocent smoothie.

After eating my lunch I did MASSES of gardening, including over an hour weeding, but the results look good so far, lots of blank well turned earth for vegetables in a few weeks time. My blubs all flowered today too! Hooray!

I made some wigwams for some sugarsnap and mangetout I am growing out of old bamboo from my parents garden, I also built a new arch with some clematis (purple haze!) for some more peas, the garden is looking pretty cool now if I do say so myself!

After all that I had a treat (some birthday chocolate from my nice man) and then made an even bigger treat with this crumble cake with apple and blackberry!

Last but not least I went and picked up some paint and undercoat and some amazing cheap chairs from ebay which I plan to makeover, will keep you posted!

My Green-house

My lounge is slowly becoming an extension of my garden. Do you remember my germinating seeds (see here)? Well this is what they look like now!




Here's some new ones too, I made some tiny plant labels to make sure I did not forget which ones are which but it is still a little confusing! Hopefully it will warm up and they can go outside soon.