I've been using home-grown garlic and home-grown herbs for a while but today was the first time that I had pulled something important out of my new vegetable patches for food purposes. I'm well-impressed by how well they seem to have grown and while the taste at the moment is a little insipid it will improve over time.
In fact the lettuce would have definitely done with another fortnight in the ground but things are getting rather tight in the lettuce bed and it needs sone thinning out, so pulling up a usable lettuce to eat was probably as good a way as any of making a space for everything else.
But in the greenhouse the tomato plants that have been dormant for ages have now started to go berserk. Rather too late now to expect anything profitable but never mind. It also seems like there might be some pepper plants coming up now that I have bought some, and another pea plant is now emerging from underneath the soil. That makes a grand total of two.
I'm eager to see it back in action shovelling the stones into place but there seems to be some kind of difficulty about that and I don't understand why.
I have to have the stones delivered by a lorry as I need over 30 tonnes of the stuff and 15 trips with the Sankey is a little too much. I have the number of someone with a tipper but they can't give me a precise date for coming to deliver the stuff. And I need to know a precise date as I need to have the digger driver here to shovel the stuff and spread it out.
I can't believe that it's so complicated. Arranging a one-hour spec for a lorry to deliver two loads of stones seems the simplest thing in the world to me. But at least it gave me time to pull up all of the roots and brambles and thistles that were lying around in the way. And I also met the farmer who has taken over the field next door from the late Farmer Parrett. We had a nice friendly chat too.
In other news, the Zionists intercepted this aid convoy and stopped it delivering the supplies to the Palestinians by the simple expedient of murdering the aid workers. It's high time someone put a stop to this behaviour and if the west is refusing to intervene then you can't blame Hamas and the rest of the Arab world for having a go.
Funny isn't it how they were supposedly smuggling weapons in to Gaza, but all they had to defend themselves were the kind of knives all sailors carry and whatever else they could lay hands on. But sssshhh! we aren't supposed to notice things like that. Or why, when surronded by 3 warships, they dropped heavily armed commandos on them WHILE IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS! Any one else does that and it's called piracy. Isreal calls it 'protecting their national interests'. They say every one has it in for them, but they never look at their own actions and attitudes for the reason why.
ReplyDeleteOne bright note though, it looks like America didn't block the move to condemn what they did.
Isn't this what I have been saying for years?
ReplyDeleteAnd the motion at the UN was considerably watered down - you should have seen the motion proposed by Turkey of which the one passed is an amendment. And Turkey was once a major ally of the Zionists.
It's what I've been saying for years too. I just don't think they, or America are the only problems in the world. While ever there are countries who will block action or criticism for no good reason then tyrranies, genocide and the like will continue. Only by taking their shelter away will international pressure be more than a silly game of musical chairs.
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