Gardening / Winds

They said it was going to be a windy weekend - and my plants didn't take to well to it. Whilst the greenhouse is already much more productive that last years dismal effort, outside isn't doing nearly as well - i don't suppose it helps that I was very behind because I was ill for so long and couldn't do anything.

The runner beans are not really bothering to grow this year, the french beans are being blown over, and the caugette plant decided to lose 90% of itself in the wind. I did have my first ever crop of broad beans at the weekend though - the ones in the ground were poor but the ones in pots are very good.

We had a very nice weekend - fairly quiet after the busy week we had - r & j are so tired after a week in nursery that it is good for them just to chill out a bit. I didn't take any photos of the weekend either so nothing to post here. Aunty Fatty and Uncle Crispin did pop round with Olivia and William which was very good entertainment.

This is an interesting article from HMRC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7468863.stm if I am reading the figures correctly and the article is correct, so far this year receipts from stamp duty are down about £9 billion. Surely that cannot be correct as the government was spending £40 billion more than it earnt last year - so this would be a massive hole in their finances and the BBC would have picked up on that in the article - especially as the figures are only for 5 months.