Sunday 3rd May

What a weekend! Despite the rain we've had an amazing time...

The liberation party last night in Trinity was excellent, the Gorey fete committee (and loads of helpers) did a fantastic job in decorating the shed and providing excellent food and entertainment. All profits are going to Jersey hospice, so I hope with three hundred people attending there was  a good amount raised.



We had an early start this morning, arriving at les platon just after 8:30am, (with yet more drizzling rain) to start our 'Diabetes walk' - it is called "North to South", but this was a bit different and more North to West. It was a distance of about eight miles, but all through green lanes, and took us about three hours. The last leg of the journey was with brilliant sunshine and really warm, so we felt that we needed to quench our thirst and reward ourselves with a cheeky lunchtime drink at the Dolphin in Gorey!

Pleased that the sun stayed out this afternoon so Steve and I managed to get on with some gardening chores. We are attempting to grow some Jersey Cabbage stalks among some more serious vegetables that we can actually eat rather than make walking sticks....sadly we have had to 'dig' up quite a large portion of our carefully planted potatoes. Mr P&E (planting and eating minister) said that they were 'hothoused', and just weren't growing properly, he blamed me for buying poor quality seed!

As it happens it's just as well we cleared some space as we needed to plant more spinach, beetroot, kale and mange tout in it's place.

So far the two minions have been behaving themselves, but I'll need to keep them occupied so they don't get into mischief.

My photos are refusing to load tonight, so will have to post tomorrow....;-)