Actually, if you think these are onions, you are probably, on balance, less than one-third right!

None of them are ‘onions’ in as much as they are sets – tiny thumbnail sized onions that you plant to grow into the big jobbies that you eat. Even then, only one of them is an onion set – the remaining two are shallots not onions at all.

They are all waiting to be planted in the garden….to be honest, they should be planted already really but it’s been so cold and murky that I’m behind with my digging. I’m behind with everything in as much as I should be further into the digging, further into the planting and much more generally organised.

However, in true Linda style, I am flying by the seat of my pants and will get everything I am planting in at the last moment before it’s too late!!!

Despite thinking I’d have bags and bags of spare time with my new part-time contract, I actually rarely ever get more than a few minutes to go out there and get on with it. Mainly because my contract is for three eight-hour days and I’m currently working 40-odd hours in a typical week. Add to that all the hours of the grand plan and the travelling and all the other things that take up the hours in my days and you get someone with little or no time at all.

Still, it’s a bank holiday today so no work even for me. Cool.

So, why haven’t I been planting today? Well, we have Colin here so a certain amount of time is spent simply ‘entertaining’, then there is the building of a dining room as our table finally made an appearance in the house on Wednesday. We had to have a window out to get it in, in the end. Anyway, whatever, it’s here now. There has been shopping to do, friends to see and all manner of things that make me feel a part of the community here. That’s so nice.

I am going to start planting tomorrow – planting in the outside garden that is. I have already started the greenhouse planting (basil, chillis, bell-peppers, sweet pointy peppers and tomatoes). Tomorrow, these onions will go in and so will the potatoes. Maybe even some peas and some carrots. Hopefully……

I was fretting about wasted food last year.