Devon Only Knows How We Weird Up The Olympic Torch Relay

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 I've been meaning to write this post since last Sunday but some how life has just got in the way this week.  Anyway.  The Olympic Torch came to Exeter, and being Devon we decided to weird it up a notch or two....

We thought to ourselves, we'll do a parade!  We'll make a giant scone with cream and jam (cream first then jam, it's the Devon way).

We'll have a man with a taped plastic bugle and a good hat, best give him a wooden stick. "But Why??",  "Who cares?!" we cried out!

We should probably have someone dressed up as Sherlock Holmes, you know just in case... 

 "But who will represent the Met Office?", don't worry we have a man with a jacket that is just right for the occasion, and if I'm not mistaken he also has a beach ball that looks like the world.  "Does he look surly?", he sure does!

 "What about boat hats?  Weymouth is near by isn't it?", not only do we have boat hats we have girls doing INTERPRETIVE BOAT DANCES!  It's a serious business it takes a lot of concentration.

 "The Wind Trapper?  There is no explaining that away is there?", no you're absolutely right I have no justification for this just pure unadulterated love and pride for it.

"A Black Dog?  Isn't that symbolic of depression?", well yes.... but surely the bitter blow of defeat should be represented?  "You're making this up", hush now. 

"The Olympic Torch, I was wondering when you were going to get round to this", well yes there was the torch, it was very gold and very shiny and the man carried it very well but where is the face paint, glitter, interpretive dance?

Rainy Day

What to do on a rainy Sunday?  The usual car boot sale is a no go, working on the allotment isn't exactly an appealing prospect.....

Perhaps a couple games of Bananagrams?

A cheeky cider in my favourite glass?

Might as well make some hummus for packed lunches and general snackage...

And while we're at it, a wholemeal oregano and sun-dried tomato pizza base...

... for a dairy free pizza?  Oh go on then.  

I told you I was turning into a yogurt weaving, hummus making sort.  Not sure I'm comfortable with it to be honest but the pizza was lush so that certainly helped :)

Car Booty

We haven't been to many car boot sales or charity shops recently, life has been a bit hectic but over the last couple of weeks we started the spring/summer car boot season fairly well...

Fantastic glass jug a bargain £2, cheer me up tulips and our 50p ship of joy (or fools, but really that depends if you're an Erasure fan or not).

Allotment geekery

Sunday saw MozzyMr and I working on the allotment, so far the cabbages are going well:

The garlics are coming along a treat:

The tomato seedlings we had growing on the kitchen window sill have been re-potted and moved to the the polytunnel ready to be planted in our raised bed properly when they're a little stronger.

The first batch of potatoes are in:

And the carrot plot has been weeded, raked and fleeced to warm the soil, in a couple of weeks we'll dig it through, sieve it and plant our carrot seeds out.

We harvested our first crop of purple sprouting broccoli as well, it was a bit buggy and needed a good wash but was delicious and was well worth the 4 or so month wait.  Things are getting exciting again on the plot and I hope this year we'll expand range of veg and have a year of good eating...