It Doesn't Rain...

If you don't live in Britain you may be unaware of the appalling weather we have had so far this year. Quite comically we started the season with a hosepipe ban and this was followed with the wettest few months ever recorded. Now us Brit's are reasonably hardy folk when it comes to bad weather (that is unless is snows, only a few inches can throw us into the most awful quandary and general panic and disorder ensues). Don't get me wrong we like to moan about it, but a bit of rain doesn't, generally, stop us in our tracks...this is after all Great Britain and rain to us is like sand in the desert...a fact of life. This year however has been, quite frankly, bloody ridiculous. No sun = nothing is growing. Even the highest of land is surface flooding. It's a nightmare. I thought last year was bad when we were picking crops 6 weeks later than we should have been, but nothing is growing this year and as the months go by our veg growing efforts are looking more and more like a disaster. It's also impossible to get out in the garden. After two washed out weekends our garden was starting to look like a bit of a mess:

In desperate need of a good mow and a trim

Even though the veg side of things is grim, the chicken's have settled in nicely. They figured where to roost on the first night with no intervention from me and are now enjoying peck in around in the enclosure. We are also seeing the first eggs which is very exciting!! The wormery is going well too. We have discovered that they love carrot peelings. Here is a picture of our pretty girls and not so pretty worm friends:

Charlie proudly showing off one of our first eggs!

Back to the garden. We unleashed minion 5 on the weeds and gave the lawn a bit of a mow and it's looking a lot better out there. We're hoping for a late harvest and haven't given up on our crops! That said, we are sick of being slaves to our fickle climate and have decided to get a greenhouse. At least we can have a bash at controlling conditions in there. I feel another blog entry coming on :-)

Minion 5 hard at work

'I wouldn't have done it like that..'