Cosmic love

Cosmic Lunar Triangle Tee by These Folk

Cosmic Wood Bangle by Voz Collective

Hubble Lollipops by Designer Lollipop

Cosmic Mason Jar by Limb Trim

Allotment geekery

1. Hardening off the pampered polytunnel plants in a sheltered spot on the plot2. The strawberries won't be far off so we've been slug proofing the plants3. Three rows of swedes and three rows of parsnips, planted, watered and eagerly anticipated4. Butternut squashes planted and under cloches just in case the lovely British weather decides to get cold and bitey again.5. Strawberry flowers galore!6. Borlotti beans finally out on the plot, last year I was convinced I didn't want to grow beans but have planted broad beans, borlotti, and dwarf (yellow and purple) so really I don't know what I was going on about?

Norway Day

I've worked with my Norwegian friend Marte for 3 years now, before her arrival in the office I was completely unaware of Norway day (17th May, apparently it's massive...in Norway).  Marte's first Norway Day in the office passes relatively unnoticed despite much enthusing from our lovely Norwegian.  Second Norway Day in the office gets more attention than the previous year, but sadly for Marte her desk is decorated with posters for British Sandwich week.  Third Norway Day in the office was not going to go past without celebrating!  The crazy woman gets into the office at 7.30am to decorate everyones desk with a Happy Norway Day flag:

She puts on a fine spread of food, my contribution being some Norwegian flag cupcakes:

To the pub to celebrate properly, taking with us some of the decorations sent from Norway by Marte's mum.  

So there you have it, a taste of Norway Day in the UK.  Apparently in Oslo there are massive parades and everyone wears their national dress and it is a massive celebration, definitely something I would like to see first hand, maybe next year?  

Life via the medium of rainbow

Allotment geekery

Yesterday was all about firsts, first properly hot and sunny day of the year, first peeks of apple and strawberry blossom, and first broad bean ever grown!  To round this bank holiday off in proper 'crossing the age line' style we're off to the garden centre in a bit then to the dump to get chicken wire to grow my peas up (yes I heard myself, and yes I know I am rapidly turning into a person of a certain age).

Look at that sky!  It was so lovely yesterday and as I type this I can hear the birds singing outside, I can't wait to get out there :)

I had never realised before we had this allotment that apple blossom starts it's life as a vivid pink, the flowers are so purdy!

* Excitement* the strawberries are coming!  The strawberries are coming!  We're going to give jam a try this year as MozzyMr is allergic to uncooked fruit and there are only so many strawberries I can eat by myself no matter how much I love them.

The only real reason I'm growing broad beans is because I saw a recipe for broad bean pesto that looked great right at the end of broad bean season last year so I couldn't try it out.  I've waited a whole year to grow these little beauties, the trouble is I have a nasty feeling I have no idea where I put the recipe....

Allotment geekery

Yesterday the weather was luuush so of course we had to get on the allotment, at this time of year there is so much to get done.  Not only that we have been so starved of sun this winter it's nice to have the sun on your face, even if it wasn't very warm just being able to get out there was enough.

In the last week the seedlings have really gone for it...

Courgettes at last!  These pesky things weren't germinating at all (or so I thought) so I kept planting more thinking I would have a summer of no courgettes *shudder* but I now have about 10 or 11 plants.  Anyone who has grown courgettes will know four plants are more than enough for two people so the folks at work are going to have to brace themselves for the onslaught of veg I'm going to force upon them.

I reacted in much the same way to beetroot as I did to courgettes, I now have 51 plants growing (oops).  Luckily we love beetroot, if you haven't tried beetroot thinly sliced on pizza you are seriously missing out it is mega tasty, try it.

I have never grown broad beans before so I'm happy with the way these bad boys are turning out.  Other people in the polytunnel have been growing broad beans and their plants have pods on them already, I'm not too concerned, from the looks of these flowers we are going to have plenty to keep us busy (so close to trying out broad bean pesto, I just need to find where I have 'safely stored' the recipe).

Well this is a selection of what we have on the go.  Bottom right we have peas that are ready to go out, on the left many, many beetroots, in the modular tray are the butternut squashes I'm hoping will make an appearance soon, borlotti beans which will be hardened off soon, broccoli, turnips, french beans (purple and yellow) and aubergine.

What we did on the plot: 

• Station sewed our first row of radish
• Got the first batch of carrot seed in
• Dug out the dandelions creeping over from our neighbours plot
• Hand weeded the onions

A little post about Mewster

Well firstly I have to apologise to those of you who follow me on Instagram (@mozzymrs) because you will have seen these photos already, BUT in my defence I wanted to write a post about Mewster the wonder cat and she doesn't like cameras but seems not to realise I can take photos with my phone.  She is such an awesome cat, she is so gentle, affectionate, funny, sweet natured and daft.  She is a joy to live with and everyone who meets her seems to think she's pretty awesome too (she won MoMa over by spending a good minute or two licking her hand) so please excuse this somewhat indulgent post about my cat Mewster (who MozzyMr still insists on calling Supertube).

This cat just loves the bath, and water, and "hiding"

Blue steel

Derp

Guilty look

Magnum

Slurp!

Cat with a tasche!

The morning after the night before (catnip comedown)