Well as it ws such a lovely day yesterday Sheila and the 2 boys Jean/Paul and He Who Must Be Obeyed Shane went over to the plot to make a start on the weeding, of which there is a lot but the two boys were happy enough to just mess about in the sun shine. We were over there for a few hours,as well as the weeding Shelia again cleaned and feed our girls.
We have now put up some netting at the back of the hen house so that we can resow with grasses so that the chickens don't have to keep going around in the dirt all the time.
It may not be the right thing to do but We think of it this way what would you or I prefer Gass or the mud??

While over the plot my Daughter Theresa our 2 grand children Courtney/ Jade and Conner came to the allotment also so then we could'nt get very much done. We had a cup of tea and Shane went to brain Conner with a little spade that another allotment holder gave us.
So with that we came home and started to re do the veg patch. Last year we had rased beds and they were O.k but not great. We got a good amount of veg from them and being the First year of growing a lot of veg we did'nt do to bad I think.

Well this year my Wife with a lot of help from Theresa have mad the beds a litte less wide but a good bit longer so it's going to be easier to plat crops and to harvest them.
They emptied our 3 compost bins and spread that all over and dug it in. We also put some old potting compost over and mixed well, (Just like making a cake)
From there J/P washed the inside of the greenhouse while Theresa cleaned the outside and yet again all I had to do was make the tea. But I did manage to put some seeds into trays and those other type of trays that you put 1 or 2 seeds in each pot.

With all the fresh air that the children had the were eating like mad I think if Eating was an olympic event they would have won Gold, Silver and Bronze. I Still have not much appetite, but I can do with lossing a few pounds. We all slept well and Dear Shane was awake at 4.45am this mornig.

I spoke to my eldest Sister todayShe is down at Axminster with her husband. She was asking me if I'd still got the allotment and what we had ben doing over there. I told her that we had the chickens and that we have a few people around here who like the eggs and buys them off us.
She asked me if any of our Sisters or brother has any and I had to say that they don't.
As I think that as they have so much they tend to think that we are below them. I told her that I would love for them to come to mine and live a more Eco-Friendly or Greener way of life but they think you have to have loads of land and also go with out a lot of things. But we don't go without any thing that I can think of.

But my sister was saying that when the others where small they had nothing, but nobody else did have much, this was in the 50/60/70. My Dear Dad would have and is pleased with what I am trying to do even though he's been dead since May 1984. Oh how I miss him so very much.

We eat well on fresh local foods we try not to have to many packets of things, So I go along to a local Food Coop (Ipswich) that is held every 2 week to pick up organic food stuffs and if we need it the house hold cleaning stuff. As yet we have not gone over to the natural cleaning products, but I did hear how to clean a Kettle with lemon.

To Clean the scale from the inside of the kettle. Get your lemon get the juice out or and cut the rest up pop it into your kettle and boil. I did this and Theresa said that she has never seen so much limescale come out of it.

Also to clean and make shine the Stainless Steel things in the kitchen I use Olive Oil to get the sine up.

Right I have to go now but I'll be back later to show some more pictures.
Take care, Keep safe.
Nicky.