Ten things for which I give thanks this week…
1 – Our Olive tree seems to have set the majority of flowers – whether they turn into lovely black olives remains to be seen but there are far more, potentially than last year…
2 – We were loaded up more or less according to schedule to depart for our holiday in Cornwall – and no, there is no kitchen sink in there…
3 – Grateful to our neighbour opposite for agreeing to water the garden (containers) whilst we are away – the Rhubarb is the bellweather – I hav e never tried to grow Rhubarb in a pot before and it has grown so much this year, after already being repotted once, that I think it will need an even larger pot for next year. It started from a fragment of plant that came away with a stalk I picked two years ago! It has wilted several times with this years heatwaves but has perked up within the hour after being watered…
4 – Gratefull not to have been travelling an hour earlier when a serious accident happened en route for the motorway at a place where, stuck in the queue waiting for it to be removed (took another hour) we could do nothing but chat to other drivers and I took this picture of the landscape. There was no alternative to waiting, no lanes that could be used to bypass the incident – es la vida…
5 – Glad to have been once more passing surely the best motorway service station, possibly in the world! Looking like some ancient megalithic structure embedded in the landscape, this service station is a Farm Shop selling amazing artisan breads and cakes, fruit and wholefood goods. I bought a Sourdough loaf which will last our first week on holiday, apples and a Pistachio cream filled Croissant…
6 – Glad that this is the season of native English apples and here is my favourite a Discovery apple. The intens red of the skin permeates the flesh inside – and the taste – well, this is to other apples as Champagne is to other wines! Sadly, supermarkets favour apples that last longer (at the cost of less taste) and have their supply lines set to a steady flow of foreign apples – so all the more reason to savour English apples when they are in season and you can manage to find them…
7 – We arrived at 9 o’clock at night after an epic 12 hour drive and this is the little garden at the back of the static trailer. The approach to it is not very prepossessing – a building site! But the accomodation is nice if bijou and there is a stream flowing alongside which gives a constant gurgling soundtrack…
8 – On the other side of the wall is a disused China Clay drying works since we are on the outskirts of St. Austell, Cornwall, where china clay mining has been an industry for a long time supplying clay for uses from toothpaste to glossy paper…
9 – It is raining this morning but we are on holiday so es la vida! (That’s life!) We shall just relax and go with the flow…
10 – We had chip butties for lunch yesterday – how decadent is that!
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What a kind neighbor! When I was forced to be away I had to send my potted plants to a nursery for care.
The Fuel Station looks perfect as a pit stop for travelers.
I played your video of the stream. I guess it may take some time to get used to the sounds of flowing water.
Happy vacation to you and yours.
Good(ish) start to an adventure. the (ish) designations purely for the tied up in traffic part. not a fan, but somehow stuck in traffic on the way to is less onerous than ‘on the way home’.
what is the coolest thing about the virtual world (in general) and the blogosphere (in particular) I now know there is such a thing as a French Fry sandwich!! damn! how is it such a simply concept has not appeared in my timeline!
have a good vacay
Thanks Clark – ah yes you call Chips French Fries and we call those very thin fries like you get in McDonalds – American Fries. In Malta, which was a British Naval base for a long time, they love the British and hate the French, who occupied them briefly, so whereas bread from France is usually highly regarded, in Malta, French Bread is the bog-standard sliced bread – Merde!
#4. If one must be stopped in one’s tracks, a lovely stretch of scenery to admire is rather like ‘stop and smell the roses’. Simply gorgeous.
#6. Totally agree. Ours suffered from black fly this year, and the apples didn’t develop well. Our neighbour, who never eats their apples but lets then fall to the ground and rot, is keeping us supplied this year.
Looks like your weather will be good today (according to the BBC weather app). Hope the weather holds for you — Cornwall (always changeable weather).
Your list has me smiling, I’m so glad you found your Discovery apples. I like a couple of heirloom varieties myself and can almost never get them.
Great job, by the way, playing car tetris to get everything in.
Enjoy your vacation!