Down at the bottom of the garden, among the birds and the bees

Developments in the veggie patch:

• The salad leaves are rampant, thanks to the warm, wet weather, and growing faster than we can eat our way through the bounty
• The squash and courgette plants grow higher and higher, succulent Triffid-like monsters - embryo blossoms are starting to form, fingers crossed for some sunshine to coax them out
• The runner beans are a bit weedy but making concerted efforts to twirl themselves up the canes
• The strawberries are looking promising, more buds showing everyday - the cage was carefully constructed after an eye-witness saw a pesky squirrel making himself right at home in amongst the babies
• Peas (out of shot) are looking luscious, with six or seven fat little pods already
• And there's a veritable forest of broad beans

Here's hoping for a goodly harvest!

All construction efforts courtesy of The Boy: he has the necessary survival skills for a post-oil Apocalyptic world, for which today's transport strike has shown I am pitifully equipped.

He's coming with me - when the time comes, we'll head for the hills, and he can build us a raft ... and maybe a fort ... and maybe a wind-turbine.