I don’t have much to write about this week as we have more or less been confined indoors.
Martyn had another appointment at the hospital to have the dressing on his nose changed. Everything is going well, so now we have to change the dressings ourselves. I wasn’t allowed to accompany, Martyn so he had to teach me how to fix the dressing as it’s impossible to dress your own nose. They have booked him another appointment for next week which he can cancel if he feels that he doesn’t need it.
I had the results of my biopsies, well I say results but I still don’t know exactly what has caused my rash. My letter just said that no other treatment is needed and that a follow up appointment will be made in due course.
We still haven’t been to the allotment, however even if we had been able to pay a visit, the horrible weather would have probably kept us away.
The wind has been relentless and often accompanied by squally rain. Not at all gardening weather.
The only garden related activity was to collect our order of seed potatoes and onion and shallot sets from our local garden centre. We have chosen, Casablanca, Charlotte, Elfe, Osprey, Nadine and Rudolf for our main planting. We usually choose some new, to us, varieties to trial. This year we will be trialling Heidi Red and Alouette.
We have chosen four onion varieties, Sturon, Hercules, Centurion and Setton, all of which are globe shaped which we prefer. Having had no success growing red onions from sets, we are going to try growing Red Baron from seed.
We have also bought two lots of shallot sets, Longor and Meloine.
We have been kept fairly busy indoors as we are preparing to have some work done in a couple of upstairs rooms. We’ve been busy clearing cupboards and drawers of unwanted items that we have accumulated over the years and taking them for recycling. I ended up with two sackfuls off coat hangers!
Two meals that used some of our homegrown produce last week included a turkey casserole which used our carrot, onion and frozen sweet corn, peas, green and broad beans.
The other meal was a chicken and leek stroganoff into which went our onion, leeks and parsley. I cooked the chicken for longer as I was wary of cooking chicken for such a short time.
We also used some Wensleydale patties from the freezer that I had made previously using our leeks. Click here the details are at the end of the post.
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haven’t included lots of photos this week as I have suddenly acquired an aching shoulder which is at its worst when I sit upright which I need to do in order to download and edit my photos on my desktop computer. At least I can enter the text leaning back on the sofa.
Here’s hoping things improve weather and shoulder wise this week As always stay safe and well. I won’t be putting away my masks just yet.
I miss your Monday posts. I hope that you both are healing. And yes, maybe you and the weather will improve together.
Let’s hope so Jane
Not a much better weekend Sue so I wonder if you’ve managed any time at the allotment. I think that you would go cross – eyed if you attempted to dress your own nose 😵 I hope that you are both healing nicely and that your aching shoulder is easing. Just ‘Charlotte’ potatoes for me this year. I seem to have grown them for a few years running now. Is ‘Meloine’ a new variety of shallot? I’ve not come across it before now.
No we still haven’t managed a plot visit, Anna. Martyn’s nose seems to be healing. He has a check up next week. My shoulder has improved over the last couple of days.
I don’t know how new Meloine is but we have grown it for two or three years now.
Good that all is well for you both health wise. I hope your shoulder improves too. The weather has been fairly grim here too. You remind me that I need to buy my seed potatoes and onion sets.xxx
We’re getting there, Dina although my shoulder is still playing up. It hurts most when I sit up straight
Congratulations on getting your onions and potatoes in order – a little gardening even in horrible weather! I do hope your physical challenges go away soon, so you can actually enjoy spring when it arrives. Aches and pains can be such a nuisance, can’t they?
At least it’s the right time to be incapacitated, Su