Seaside Its been very hot here too, I'm jealous of
HHODs rain actually. Lots of plants are giving up and the lawns are brown and crispy. Even the nettles are drooping. Too hot to garden so my efforts have mostly been bits of watering.
I did harvest some more baby courgettes today, and a sneaky first pea pod and a broad bean pod. All nice and tasty. The peas taste so much better fresh like that. My raspberries are finally starting to ripen, but the birds stripped the cherry tree again so no cherries this year. Potatoes should be ready soon, love home grown new potatoes.
Read an article about salad shortages due to the heat stopping growth, which is probably why my latest lot haven't germinated. Tidied up the current patch in the hope of keeping it productive a little longer, it has generated a lot of salad bowls for 50p worth of seeds last year.
I used the baby courgettes to make a courgette, pine nut and sultana salad. I liked it, OH less keen so I need to rethink that one. It used up some OOD pine nuts anyway. Our visitors turned up today so lots of salad stuff and cold meat. It made sorting packed lunches easy at least.
OH did a trial fitting of the new bathroom cabinet and it looks far better than I expected, good proportions for the room so I am upgrading that from 'it'll do' to 'quite like it'.
I bought a replacement curtain rail for the broken one in DS1s bedroom. I can't remember quite how long he has had his curtains stuck to the pelmet with drawing pins for

We haven't had time to fit it yet but mister resistant to change is still recovering from the trauma of the bedroom clear out. I don't want to stress him out too much after all.
Where has the week gone again? Monday and food shopping tomorrow. I've nearly run out of olive oil so an expensive start to the list, even in MrL. Mortgage goes out in the morning and then I can make a rounding up over payment. Its the little steps that make me feel like we are getting there, chipping away at it a few pounds at a time. And looking backwards and realising we have paid over a third off now since we took it out despite the famine patches. Its still big and scary, but it used to be huge and ugly!