Red Red Blood

Sam was off at a friend's so Tom and I decided to do some work in our little patch of garden. I started off by getting a ladder to try to reach our small crop of Damsons, which were growing very high up on our tree. The ladder helped me reach a few, but in the end I had to get a the kids fishing net and teeter precariously on the wobbly ladder! There were some not yet ripe and others I just could not reach, but in the end I managed to harvest a whole 20 teeny tiny damsons! Now I have to find a recipe that only uses a small amount of them.

We cleared out dead leaves, removed a caterpillar, a snail and a slug (yech) and sprayed the sunflowers against blackfly (yech again). Transplanted some sunflowers from the boy's planters to make more room for all the little flowers struggling to grow under them and pulled out some weeds. It was while I was doing the weeds that I heard Tom wail and cry out "it's all red!", I went over and found blood pouring out of his big toe! I have no idea how he did it, but he has a small, but deep cut on the inner side of his big toe. He was traumatised by the redness of his blood, but did not seem to feel much pain.


He is an aspiring photographer, or at least he is this week! Here are his pics from the last few days...

Fishing for damsons

Interesting patterns on the path(apparently!)

Injury

My damson haul!