Busy days..

The weather has been pretty good this week which means that the tomato plants are growing nicely in the greenhouse. We’ve got successional plantings of salad leaves too which are a bonus. I prefer not to buy bags of lettuce – the ones washed in spring water have to be used within just a couple of days and that’s not always convenient. So, even during the winter, we’ve had bowls of leaves growing – not always in the greenhouse but sometimes on a bathroom window sill. Not quite what guests expect, but when they enjoy homegrown salads they can see the sense. At this time of year I have been known to cook asparagus to chop up and add to the leafage too. Our favourite young people have all been busy too and were all in London on Wednesday, for different reasons. One was being interviewed about air travel, another was working at the Albert Hall and one was being entertained by the King at Buckingham Palace. I have to say that the food choices offered by the Palace kitchens looked very interesting, on rectangular plates with a recess for the cup. Perfectly sized so they had to limit how much would fit on the plate. Clever!