Holiday jobs

The weather obsession continues, as it's been wet,wet,wet but our neighbours continue to tell us that its not always like this on the moor. The cottage has felt chilly and a bit damp so we have got the Rayburn going again and we feel cosy now - not very eco-friendly but needs must.

Cornwall has been much quieter now that the main holiday time is over and so its time for me to have two weeks holiday and hope to spend most of this getting stuck into the jobs that need doing around the smallholding. Undergrowth needs cutting back, trees pruning, blackberries collecting, veggie and flower beds turning over, plants propagating, greenhouse clearing and cleaning, leaves sweeping up, motorhome airing and worst of all Japanese knotweed needs eradicating. But then if it rains there is always the seed/plant catalogues to plan for next year or a blog to write or a website to create! But if it gets really sunny I think that the beach will call me and Saffy - even if Steve is not a keen beach bum.

I made a start on the knotweed at the weekend but getting to the wretched stuff has not been easy as its in the 'wild-life' area which is thick with bracken, gorse and brambles. To the amusement of passers-by I climbed up the Cornish walls and acrobatically manoeuvred myself into position to attack these modern day triffids.

To digress we went to the wonderful Minnack Theatre and for those of you who have never been; it was built in the 1930's and is set in the open-air, on a cliff-side setting over-looking the sea, near Land's End. We saw 'War of the Worlds' and the red weed in the story reminded me of the knotweed! It was a real trip down memory lane the music was great - even if our singing along wasn't!

Oh well back to work as there is a huge pile of cucumbers to do things with! If anyone has any cucumber recipes let me know there is only so much soup and pickle we can eat.