Right back where we started from

It’s blowing a right old gale outside tonight so let’s turn our minds to bit of indoor gardening for a few minutes. Big shout to our good mate Ciarán over in Vancouver for sending us pics of his chilli seedlings and judging by the ones at the top they’re looking well healthy at the moment unlike ours which didn’t even germinate!

Here’s what we’ve got on. There’s some pea shoots, herbs and some sweet peas just poking through on the tray to the right. Send us pics of how you’re getting on with your sowings. Roll on the warmer weather!

The cloche is off!

Look at that foxtail lily. It’s been threatening to lift off it’s plastic cloche for days and it’s only the start of march. What a mad plant/triffid it is!

The plastic protector was put back on over it but it looks like Storm Freya has taken it on a journey half-way down the garden (remember when storms didn’t use to have names and we just used to say things like “The weather’s crap outside” or “It’s tipping it down out there”?). The lily it lives!

More life

While listening again to this week’s Echo Chamber on KFAI we came across this gem that we missed the first time around. It’s a lovely 6 minutes thing by The Spy from Cairo with Beirut Skank. The longer it goes on the more dubbier it becomes! A tune to listening to in the back room while looking out the back window saying to yourself “I just don’t get this weather, it was lovely at the start of the week and now when it comes to the weekend, it’s like this?” One to listen to with a Bacardi and Coke in one hand and some Cheese thins in the other.