Pinterest Sunday - Mason Jars, sofa & duvet and Cushions for Katie

Pinterest Sunday is a very close relation to Lazy Sunday and Hungover Sunday.  All three Sunday varieties start the same way with me looking out of the window and thinking 'hell no, I am not going out there'!  

far too rainy to think about gardening

A pumpkin hunting holiday

I’m a bit late with my blog post for this week, I’ve been on holiday, hooray for me … a two day week at work is just the way it should be!  However, I haven’t been slacking, I’ve been hunting pumpkins!  Please excuse the grey photos, it was a rather grey rainy day!

Peirce Orchard - Central Otago

Glorious Garlic - definitely no vampires round here

It finally stopped raining! FINALLY!  I was afraid that I was going to miss my date for planting out the garlic.  

I put garlic in nearly everything, I love it.  I reckon it goes in about 80% of my evening meals.  My favourite meals all have garlic in there somewhere!  I planted some last year and was only moderately successful, it looked like garlic and tasted like garlic but in miniature.  It was about half the size that it should have been.  I think it may have been because I planted it a bit too late, or perhaps because our spring/summer was so dry this year and they didn't get quite enough water to plump out?  

Leeks - the ghetto vegetable

I saw something as I was walking through Dunedin a couple of days ago that perfectly proves the point I was trying to make with this blog.  It was a great example of not needing a lifestyle block or even a veggie patch to grow vegetables.

OK so admittedly a main street in central Dunedin isn't exactly the ghetto but it was still the last place I was expecting to see vegetables growing!  In the window boxes of what I assumed was an office building were some very healthy looking leeks and celery, I had to cross the road to make sure I wasn't imagining it :)

A perfect recipe for a rainy Sunday

A soggy Sunday after an already saturated Saturday ... It's been raining for two days solidly. I'm unusually happy about this as I needed an excuse to hunker down indoors all weekend.  It's far too wet to get out in the garden even if I wanted to!  I've spent all day in the kitchen today (well apart from the hours I have spent on the sofa) and it's been wonderful.