A change

in the weather, its dull and overcast this morning, DB tells me it will possibly rain until lunch time........not sure if the gardener will come depends if the rain has stopped.

I have started letting him go up to the greenhouse for about half an hour, yesterday he picked a cucumber, the first we have had off the plant this year, I think the hot weather did not suit it, the cucumbers started to grow and then shrivelled up. He is still picking tomatoes and came in with half a bowl of blackberries, I open freeze them and then bag them to use with apples over the winter. In the depths of my mind I remember going blackberrying with my grandmother, she used to make appple and blackberry jam.

Yesterday I had a letter from our old neighbour in Haddington, she always sent us a card at Christmas, but we did not get one last  Christmas, I was concerned, she was a very nice lady, used to spend the worst weeks of the Scottish winter in New Zealand with her neice. We looked after her flat whilst she was away.  I had been trying to find out if she was still around. I knew she went to the little church in Saltoun so sent an email to the priest and she told me that D was still around but was not going out much due to ill health. Her letter explained that she has a tumour on her spine, non cancerous, which causes her problems so she is not as active as she used to be. I will be replying to her this weekend. She brought me up to date with the people we knew in the flats. It is 10 years since we left, so most of the properties have changed hands.

So I was going to wash this morning, but thanks to the weather have put it off till tomorrow. I do find it esaier doing two smaller loads rather than one big one. Our washer only takes in the amount of water according to the load.

Supper tonight will be fish and chips, at the coffee morning there are often bags of fruit left over from the Sunday lunch, there were 3 bananas in this weeks, so DB has been having them at night. I hate really ripe bananas prefer them just after the green has turned yellow, so I will be having an orange, that will be dessert for today.