Cloudy but not cold. The nights & early mornings are reasonably warm at present. Finished cleaning out main flower bed & cleaned out the one in front of the kitchen. “Smallholder” advises sowing broad beans now & planting shallots, so shall do so if I get time.
6 eggs.
Put apples to soak for apple wine.
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
Apple wine …. mmmmmmm.
…..if I get time…..
Well, this beats disposing of the goats, slaughtering the chickens, burning the garden, and looking for a flat in London with storage space for hundreds of pounds of potatoes. That’s what I’d begun to fear during the latest Long Silence.
Steve – amen to that!