I started to repot my tomato plants and as I tipped out the compost these little fellows fell out. They are intricately formed bullet shaped cocoons with perfectly cut rose leaves to seal the ends. Inside there is a clear looking wet grub. After a quick google I found that these cocoons are most likely to belong to a Leaf Cutting Bee.
Our first pickings of Rubarb from the allotment all chopped up and ready to cook!
I love google homepages. They are always really creative, original and a great way to learn about special days in the year.
This one however has to be my all time favourite. Its PAC-MAN’s 30th Birthday and to celebrate they have designed a google game for everyone to enjoy. Its great and even has an insert coin button for two players. Enjoy Everyone!
Its Purple Sprouting Broccoli season on the allotment, and we have loads of it!
This has to be one of those crops that are really worth growing. It takes a little patience as the seeds need to be sowed a whole year before harvesting. Once in the soil however, the seedlings can be pretty much left to their own devices and yet still always produce an abundance of broccoli at the following spring.
I visited the Brooklyn Flea Market during my final weekend in New York. Having never been to a flea market before I wasnt quite sure what to expect. I mean I obviously knew there would be stools selling antiques and nick-nacks, but when I walked through the iron gates to the market I was very excited. There were hundreds of books to flick through, boxes and boxes of goodies to delve through and old style maps everywhere. Every stool told a story I could have been there all day rumaging though each stool.
This was our first experience crossing the road in Vietnam. I look slightly ridiculous and clearly a little nervous, but once you have learnt the trick of slow walking and ignoring all the bikes. Every road is a piece of cake! You certainly would be on the pavement a long time if you ever waited for a gap!
Video taken by Laura. Our fellow Gap Adventurer.
