Eating Mojo and Saving Water...

 Thank you all so much for leaving empathetic comments on my last post.  I'm sorry I haven't replied individually but I can only do so on the main PC as my phone screen is far too small and it's much too fiddly to correct typos on it, especially as Blogger is doing weird things!  The main computer is in the bedroom at the back which gets very hot indeed 🔥🔥

We are not venturing out very far at all.  If the day is a tad cooler we go and do what is necessary then come home and shut ourselves in again. Gray is being brave and going to the allotment first thing in the morning to water just to keep the crops alive.  We really can't afford to lose any more food.  The sweetcorn is about to ripen enough to pick and we are hoping desperately that the badgers won't beat us to it this year.

We have been picking:

Allotment

French beans, runner beans (very few this year) raspberries (by the boxful), carrots, radishes, spring onions, potatoes and windfall apples

Greenhouse at home

Crimson Crush tomatoes, Sun Baby yellow tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce

Eating is really the last thing on our minds with the weather being so hot and dry, and I'm trying to make the effort to prepare colourful food for us.  This was what I ate yesterday at lunchtime when Gray was at the allotment.....

I've cut my cheese consumption still further so I cut the portion into tiny cubes to make it stretch.  I really enjoyed it.  Home grown tomatoes, radish, cucumber, a bit of bag lettuce, the last egg in the fridge and cheddar cheese.  Yummy 😀

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With the weather being so hot, I've been taking lukewarm baths to ease my aches and pains (the shower doesn't help)  We keep a bucket in the bathroom in order to save water run off and we've used it to transfer the bath water to the water butt outside.  It's been a real team effort with me scooping the water into the bucket with a jug and Gray using muscle power to lift it and take it outside 😉 Not a drop is wasted 👍........

Thanks again to all my kind blog buddies for your lovely comments.  Take care of yourselves,

Angie 💗