Ah horseshit! Off topic but Pip, our resident gardener, gets a few sacks of horse manure evrey year and digs it in all the veg garden. It seems to pay off and we had excellent crops last year. Hope things go as well this year. Last year we had onions, shallots, runner beans, peas, acorn squash, sweet corn, potatoes, sweeds, turnips, broccoli, garlic, cabbage, sprouts, lettuce, leeks, rhubarb, black currants, at least one meal of asparagus and probably a few other things from that patch.

Probably my favourite was the sweet corn. It was only 2 years ago that I first got to eat it about 15 minutes after picking and am still amazed at the difference in taste when compared to shop bought stuff that's probably sat around for a couple of days.

A big hope for me this year is that the apricot tree round the front of the house yeilds something. The last 2 years, strong winds blew all the blossom off but this year, things are looking better. I've never just picked and eaten an apricot and am looking forward to the chance.

Jon