Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "blueberries-pumpkin"
27th September 2014
I was out picking my eating apples today. Though they don't look great being covered in scabs, though not all of them, they aren't to bad. I got about a dozen apples in total. Not a lot I know but I do love apples. I have an apple every day at work so these should save Magz buying them for a couple of weeks which is a good thing considering the cost of everything these days. I unfortunately lost the pumpkin that was growing. I noticed that is was rotting on top when checking on it today. I'm beginning to think growing pumpkins isn't a great idea if you are doing it in tubs. I will need to think of some other way to grow them. Maybe a grow bag as I have for the tomatoes. Speaking of which I am now getting a nice little crop from them now. They have taken their time to give us much and though we aren't getting as many as previous years it is still a nice number. There are more blueberries to be picked tomorrow as well. Magz has already made two crumbles with apples chunks and blueberries. They went brilliantly with custard and I'm now hoping she makes muffins with some of the berries that are left. That will also leave enough for a nice pie to go with more custard. I do love cake and custard, yummy.
Things are slowly dying down after the referendum. I am still get the mick taken out of me by Ross at work. He voted no and thinks reminding me of how we are better together as he knows I was for the yes camp. It is all in good fun though which does help us all get over the passions that was raised during the long campaign, especially towards the end when things began to become more heated. The disappointment that I feel is slowly being replaced with the acceptance of the situation. We as a nation just aren't ready to be a member of the grown up world of nations. We would rather blame Westminster for all our troubles than take the responsibility for it ourselves. Or at least that is how I imagine the world see us now. Then again I am biased in my thinking and maybe that isn't so much how the world sees us but rather how I see Scotland now.
Things are slowly dying down after the referendum. I am still get the mick taken out of me by Ross at work. He voted no and thinks reminding me of how we are better together as he knows I was for the yes camp. It is all in good fun though which does help us all get over the passions that was raised during the long campaign, especially towards the end when things began to become more heated. The disappointment that I feel is slowly being replaced with the acceptance of the situation. We as a nation just aren't ready to be a member of the grown up world of nations. We would rather blame Westminster for all our troubles than take the responsibility for it ourselves. Or at least that is how I imagine the world see us now. Then again I am biased in my thinking and maybe that isn't so much how the world sees us but rather how I see Scotland now.
