
There is, of course, an up side. All through the year, but particularly around now, lots of the fruits of our (OK, Mary's) labours being harvested. Good lot of (relatively slug free) potatoes, tomatoes in quantity, still salad leaves, beans, garlic, onions, brussel sprouts just starting, even raspberry's for pud. Perhaps most eyecatching, the "charismatic flora" so-to-speak, are the pumpkins. We've got five or six big ones and a number of smaller ones ripening. They will last and see us through a lot of the winter.