Simon and Karen Spavin

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Common Sandpiper

Four common sandpipers on our walk round last week

Tomatoes to die for this year. Every day I pick about 6lb of them. We eat them every single breakfast and they are delicious. Two freezers full of chopped toms and tubs of passata and a good 12 jars of chutney. With still more to come........

Our sweetcorn has been stupendous which we eat every lunchtime with a knob of lurpak !

Just look at it !!

Making pasta meatballs sauce x

Those chilies are hotter than hot !

Lovely sweet carrots, now tucked away in the freezer

We do have a large flower garden aswell and these dahlias are as big as dinner plates and look beautiful on the table

The first chutney of the year. Now made a further two batches. It's flipping delicious with cheese x

Blow yer balls off chilies !

Tour of Britain 2026, Stage Two, Kirmond le Mire

Day two and a drive into the wolds to the hill climb at Kirmond le Mire. It was only a Cat 3 climb which, to you and me, would have been a right puff to climb but to these guys they went up it like they were going for the Sunday paper.....not a puff in the peloton !