My Pocket

the vegetable garden

Hello! I am here, just been a bit busy. How are you? Good I hope. We've had sunshine and I've been so happy for it. I'm off for a walk in it after this. I've just been wanting to show you the vegetable garden that is right outside the school, have a look at a view from above here if you like. It's all organic and the main part is kept by the two gardeners, but the students have their own plots too, learning about gardening in a special compulsory class called Care for the Earth. They can grow whatever they like, be it vegetables, flowers, grass or all strawberries, as long as they take care of it. Oh, or tadpoles, because one of the plots is all pond. The garden has two greenhouses, an orchard (you've seen the apples already), a strawberry patch, raspberry shrubs and rows and rows of vegetables like lettuce, beetroot, broccoli, broad beans, parsnips and leeks.

I like the rainbow chard.

And the spinach.

The greenhouses have sweetcorn, peppermint, sweet basil

and runnerbeans

cucumbers (they're so sweet! So hard to eat shop-bought ones after that)

tomatoes

of all shapes and sizes

and chillies. Though I never have any of those. Do you?

I hope you are well and enjoying yourself, maybe having some summer fruit?

swimming : studying

The pool is looking more tempting now that the temperature is up and the sun is out. This weekend is a college weekend though, so swimming will have to wait. I'll be back on Monday! Have a great couple of days!

rain

It is raining again.

Good enough reason to make an apple crumble.

deer and other things

I've been up early enough to see the deer these last couple of days, going off to do some clinical observations. That's a fancy description for sitting in the corner of an acupuncturist's treatment room, quietly observing all the goings on, taking notes and writing up a description of it. To get a degree in acupuncture you have to do 30 hours of this per year, arranging it yourself. I really like the acupuncturists I go to, they always inspire me and they're so helpful. I can't quite believe I'll be doing this myself in a couple of years' time, that makes me so happy.

The summer sun and warmth has returned to us finally and everytime I go outdoors I feel my body absorbing as much of the nourishing rays as possible. I want to go on holiday soon, leaving this place for a while. I haven't been away much and I need to clear my eyes and my heart. Before the students arrive back and the place fills up again. I hope you have had beneficial times off and away or you are going!