Rainy day and strawberry runners

Went to the allotment today. It's nice to work in the rain for a change, I dont have to water the garden.

Found two strawberry runners starting to form so I pinned them down ready for rooting. I have never tried pinning them down, last year I left them alone and I got three plants from six or five.

The variety is Elsanta. We got them last year to replace my granddads strawberry patch which disappeared somewhere. When I was little I would go pick them. He had the same strawberries for years, I don't know what the variety was but, I remember him pulling out runners and fitting them into a line.

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A few other pictures.

French beans are in. Courgettes wont be long. Gerkins getting bigger.

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I had 3 or 4 melons but they got eaten! This is the last tiny sad melon.

Quick allotment update

Been watering in the allotment. Everything dried up. Runner beans needed weeding too.??

The old greenhouse??tomatoes have flowers. It can't be too long till they fruit.

The 2nd picture is??French??beans, the yin yang beans I sowed last month. ??

It's very, very, very hot in the new greenhouse (3rd picture). (Don't look Arna :P)??

The 4th picture is of my??gherkins.??

May reading

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, one of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read. 5/5.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Lost takes a lot of plot themes from this book. A Plane crash, a beast, two leader like figures going head to head. Quite a dark story. 4/5.

I've been trying to write lately and failing. I've started reading Vonnegut short stories and have Gulliver's travels to start,

New Greenhouse

Everything went in today. Only the door needs attention.

Check out my raised bed I built from the wood that came as packaging with the greenhouse. I filled it with gherkins and a few yellow courgettes. We have sixteen grow bags in there.

Two steps from hell

I have discovered epic orchestral trailer music.

Two Steps From Hell - Am I Not Human? Somewhat featured in the new tron trailer.
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Two Steps From Hell - Freedom Fighters. Star Trek Trailer.
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Two Steps From Hell- Heart Of Courage. From I am Legend movie I think. Very epic towards end.
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Park

More black & whiteness.??

River

Sunny day

Took a few photos and made some pancakes outside with family. Ate them with ice cream.

Also started digging for an old buried well.

Courgettes planted

Spent all day on the allotment. Planted out courgettes, and a few pumpkins and marrows.

Hop yard

Three hop bines are now over 6ft.

Second picture shows the amount of string that is running everywhere.