Harvest 2026

 Not a lot...bu seeing as I only sowed the seed in the second half of May after returning from Limoges...not bad at all,!!

The big ones are a French variety..the packet is out in the shed and I can't recall the name...I think that next year they get sown much earlier, but also the trusses get supported. They were bending their stalk where it came off the main stalk....

The small ones were saved from a particularly nice supermarket tomato...

Note to self...make sgraffito labels next year by painting the labels and scratching the name.  Everything else fades whatever they tell you!!

I've been laying low since yesterday evening.

It appears that my body doesn't like bread made with yeast . I'd had an inkling a little while ago and had been buying proper sourdough loaves instead of making my own..but with Bro here and no time to go and  buy bread, I baked.

Time to resurrect my sourdough starter maybe.... but first return to buying bread just to check.... 

oops..

 We had a good morning, sorting computer stuff, trying to teach me how to use a new system to edit photos for the website.

Unfortunately my laptop wont be ready until tomorrow (hopefully!) so Bro will do more remotely from his home.

Meanwhile with a warm if humid day the washing dried!! 

The greenhouse inhabitants are doing well with the warmer days..as long as it lasts!!

We decided to have lunch out at The Coo Shed....then down to Girvan for a walk....

Back home, Bro went in his van to recharge it at the village charge point...and I stayed and got the ironing done ... and forgot to check my phone....

I was supposed to collect something in Ayr at the same time that we'd arrived home. Had I checked my phone then we could have gone straight away.....oops.  I hate letting people down ...

sun!

 

gallery day

Not much...

 A quiet morning, then walking down to get my flu jag after lunch. Good to get it before any trip. Plus there is a flu resurgence already.

Bro arrived just after I'd walked back up the hill..good timing!!

We spent the afternoon sorting and clearing a few things. Electronic liquorice!! Working out what leads go with anything he is taking away to see if they are any use..old laptops and a couple of televisions. 

Taking out a long redundant phone wire which went from the front of the room where the power points are...to the back where it had been fed through the wall!

 This involved unscrewing a pair of tall narrow shelves full of cassettes, CDs and maps .....screwing them back, the screws pulled through the hardboard! 

Four washers will sort the problem. A job fir tomorrow morning before I go to the gallery.

Meanwhile the contents are spread around the living room in boxes....

Things always get worse first!!

once again...

 Into Ayr...which is not delightful...it is shabby and rundown like most towns nowadays.

I had one card to buy and two to post!!

Then inspiration this evening...I had used drawings from my sketch books to make cards with an inkjet printer....and they sold reasonably well....

I made a linoblock of one....I think I'll do more like this...

pootering and pootling

 The computer shop has succeeded in turning the offending object on!!

the contents will be safely cleared off ready to on a much bigger capacity hard drive..and the Ubuntu will be updated!!

I'd taken my external hard drive down in case they could use that..but to be honest that needs renewing..they don't last that long, no more than five years.

We rely on these things...but more and more I'm beginning to think that hard copies printed on acid free paper (as the acid is what degrades the ink) are what we need to return to, especially for important things

Then a walk around Ayr on the way to Waterstones and then to the bus.

but I saw this first.....it is a bit sad, but looks as if it is in line for renovation...

Tbe town hall

Auld brig

Hope street or Back o'th Isle..houses on the left were built on the old market place

Newmarket street where the plan is to restore the old shop fronts

the Grain Exchange..now council offices and soon to be an area used for teaching youths

High street with the clock tower

the entry to the closed Kyle shopping centre

and the wee shops after it

the Gaiety theatre...still hanging on in there

and new local housing association flats

Windy!!

 Still showery...with added wind!!!

Bro went off on a camping rally weekend..fortunately this year not on his motorbike ( electric Energica if you are into motorbikes) with a tent, but in his new Kia electric van with a bed that he has fitted into it.

I headed to Ayr to the computer shop..and the problem of the ubuntu password was solved..now they can work out what is the matter with it. 

Coffee was then in order....

Beastie Brews...well worth a visit, if nothing other than to see one mural which reminds me of the artist Tom Hickman!

Beastie as in "to a mouse"...

then on my way...

I had difficulty standing still enough to show the lamp post waving!

Home via the electric gubbins superstore to buy a keyboard to go with the tablet that I bought the other day. 

I bought a black one..tidy, always looks clean...and £5 more than the pink one they had plenty of stock of in the shop...a company still thinking that women like pink...and pink tools....and realising that they have made a mistake!!

I had planned a walk this afternoon but....

Instead I stayed warm and dry, photographed the sofa that is too big and needs to go...

Then researched prices of cards, envelopes and packing , then packing and reinforcing for selling prints. I have stock that needs selling, so I must get organised!!