Eating Out

23 August 2011

It’s been impossible to cook in the camper, it turns into a sauna just boiling a kettle, so we’ve been barbequing on the deck.  Pleasant, except for the flies, and some early wasps.  Dave is a dab hand at lamb chops - ‘pythakia’ in Greek, and

flame-grilled courgettes.  

The garden hasn’t done too well this summer.  I think the excessive heat has battered most of the plants.  We’ve had a good tomato crop – but the rats gnaw holes in them before we can pick them.  We’ve also had a few melons – grown from seeds I kept from a shop melon a couple of years ago – a surprising success, really.  The best crop of all has been the aubergines – two plants producing big fat purple fruit all summer.

Our biggest problem is a white mould that grows on the leaves of courgette, cucumber and other green leafy plants.  We've tried asking at the garden centres, but they sell us some stuff and when we get it home it's covered in warnings about how dangerous to the environment it is, so we don't use it.  There is an environmentally friendly version out there, but it's proved elusive so far.

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