Tuesday 17 August 2010

Down at the bottom of the garden.......

When we moved in to our house Mr Lil was very excited that there were vegetable plots and a greenhouse. I on the other hand was less enthusiastic since we mostly manage to kill every plant that enters the house!

Well look who was right!

I am super impressed with Mr Lil and his green fingers. So far this summer we have had lots of lettuce and radish, a few tomato's, some spring onion, some rhubarb which Dot turned in to a lovely rhubarb and ginger crumble and that's been about the lot. Not that I am moaning at all, I don't think that we have had to buy any of the aforementioned for months so it's certainly kept us going! Oooh and strawberries too, we had some strawberries before Lola Beagle found them and decided that she quite liked them for dessert every night!

However, Mr Lil has surpassed himself today!! The picture above is what was freshly picked from the garden this afternoon and is now going to be magically transformed in to a lovely roast chicken dinner for this evening! See how clever we are, we can make the above in to roast chicken. Well not really, but you get the picture. Incidentally, the bread was whipped up and baked whilst Mr Lil was picking the veg!

In all seriousness Mr Lil and I really hadn't a clue when we started out growing the vegetables etc and we still have a lot to learn (like that we've missed a fair few of the planting dates for winter veg, oh dear!) but it just goes to prove that it can be done. With a little knowledge, a lot of seeds and some hard work then you really can enjoy the fruits of your labour!

Bye bye xxx

Thursday 12 August 2010

Thursday Weigh-In

First of all, sorry for the lack of posts! I have been a busy little Mrs Lil for the last week or so. Work has been eating in to huge amounts of my time - how rude and then every time I have sat down to blog, something else has popped up to do!

Anyway, today is weigh-in Thursday and dum dum dum......I lost 4lb this week, making a grand total of 11lb over the past four weeks!! I'm quite pleased with that! I was feeling all negative about my weight loss at last week but when I look at the bigger picture then 11lb is fabulous I think! I've still eating relatively normally, been able to eat out, socialise with friends, have nice things for dinner etc so all in all I am thrilled!

Not much else to report! Mr Lil and I were hoping to go to Vintage at Goodwood this weekend but I don't think we're going to be able to go for one reason or another which is a shame as it looks fabulous!!

We're on countdown to our holiday now!! Just over four weeks until we go and we can't blimming wait.

Well that's all for now! Enjoy your weekends!

Bye for now xxx