As I was taking out our compost bucket to the wormery I realised we’d turned.  The bucket is filled with pea shells (home grown), sacrificed courgettes (home grown), mange tout tops and tails (home grown), broad bean shells and skins (guessed it yet…home grown).  It’s happened.  Just call us Tom and Barbara.  After feeding the worms I then picked some sweetpea to add to our home grown dahlia bouquet.

Tomorrow I’m going shoe shopping. I think I need to help the economy!

We went on a wood engraving course recently. here’s a shot of me deep in concentration, clearing the design.

What I’ve been doing in-between work  – using our wedding presents and enjoying the results! Click on each pic to see the full tasty effects.

We have this little ball of baby spiders in our back garden. When you poke them they disperse, as in this photo. I’m certain they’re evil, but I’m also rather fascinated by their balling approach to life!

Where I’ve been:

I’ve been to Israel and Palestine. More images can be seen on my flickr pages here.

Tonight we bought a bike shed and painted it in the gloaming. The beans are beginning to sprout as are the peas, mangetout and corn. We’re trying onion sets this year as the seeds were rubbish last year and we only managed to grow mini onions which were rather pointless.

My bridesmaid shows her natural talent for shocking philosphical debate. My mother cannot hide her shock. My husband shuts his eyes and wonders what to do next!

Colin asked for some thoughts on Cuba and I have been thinking a lot about our trip – just not writing much about it! I’m not sure where to begin really. It was hot and smelly (!) and sometimes very noisy. There was music at every turn and people always wanting to find out where you are from. It was, in it’s own way, very beautiful and certainly very happy, but at the same time tinged with a sadness. Buildings which clearly once had been stunningly beautiful are now wrecked and falling to bits – but they still have people living in them. Home-grown squalor brushes hard up against foreign wealth. I would say Fidel’s revolution has done little to enhance what is a fascinating country – yet, it is the stagnation created by his dictatorship that makes the country so fascinating. Tourism is crudely developed and most of the ‘must see’ things are fabricated specifically for tourists (we avoided them best we could), but if you take the plunge and brave the terrible maps and roads there are some amazing gems to be seen – coffee and sugar plantations, birds galore, tobacco drying in the fields, pigs being carried on the back of mopeds and oxen being driven down the motorway. I don’t know that I have anything more profound to say really. It was a great experience – but one that is hard to verbalise!

Wedding photos now available to peruse, purchase, laugh at as you see fit. Just follow the link on the wedding website (see below). Do email if you need the access password. Just enjoying a nice mojito on the couching reliving the wedding music!

Happy Easter! Enjoy the photies!

Homeymoon shots can be found here. Get yourself a nice glass of something – I was rather snap happy. Wedding photos will be available shortly. The link will be posted on our wedding pages.