I’ve been doing ‘stuff’ all day today in front of my PC mainly. It’s very exciting because I’m trying to set up a little business for my spare (!!??) time that I might be able to eventually make my ‘day job’. I’ve been designing the basic layout and text for a website to sell it and DM has been putting the ‘theory’ into practice for me.

Late this afternoon, I’ve had a quick scurry round the garden, cut the lawn (if you can call the dry, dusty patch of scrubby grass we have a lawn), shovelled animal shit and did the watering. It was really nice to get outside for a bit.

After the chores I popped up to the veggie patch to check out what would be for supper and these gorgeous, sweet broad (fava) beans came to my attention – just perfectly ripe and as sweet as sugar.

So, here they are, shelled and ready to go into a simple broad bean, cream, pasta (home made of course) and parmesan cheese supper for DM and I. I can’t think of much that’s nicer.

This is the seventh different vegetable crop that we’ve had so far this year – after asparagus, courgettes (zucchini), sugar snaps, spinach, mange touts, potatoes and French beans. I get so much pleasure and satisfaction out of being able to put food on our table that’s fresh and unsullied with chemicals that I feel almost tearful each time I harvest something. For whatever reason I believe this is something I have to do to keep some small modicum of sanity in my otherwise chaotic and stressful life.

Anyway, they will go dry if I don’t get back downstairs and put them in a pan so off I go!