Harvesting my gooseberries

Yesterday I picked, topped and tailed 6 pounds of gooseberries from the three bushes in the garden - quite a good haul I think! Two bushes have green gooseberries and the third has red ones. I have frozen most of them and kept enough for a nice gooseberry crumble tomorrow.

We had a very pleasant and sociable few days. We had dinner at Steven and Hilary’s on Saturday and had drinks in their new “dacha” which is very smart. On Sunday we had lunch in town with Heather, Ewan, and my beautiful god-daughter Jennifer. In the morning us girls had met up for a shopping trip, an occasional and fun activity which I consider to be part of my godmotherly duties! We visited Zara and Urban Outfitters where I noted that outfits featuring bare midriffs are currently in fashion - not something I will ever be able to wear again! How I wish that I had appreciated my flat stomach when I had one.

Yesterday I met up with two of my lovely ex colleagues, Jennifer and Caroline, for a walk and lunch in Prestwick and today James and I had lunch in Edinburgh with Janet and Peter. It was great to see them and have a good chat. 

Oh and I should mention that today has been a very turbulent day in British politics! The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has resigned and so has the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid. Boris Johnson has recently survived a vote of no confidence, but this is another blow for him. I can remember Margaret Thatcher’s resignation in 1990 as if it was yesterday; I was doing teaching practice at Cathkin High School and everyone was shocked. It seems that when a political party has been in power for too long it starts to rip itself apart.