Sunday, September 30, 2012

Ealing Half Marathon (or is it a Snickers now?)

Runners and crowd in The Avenue 30th September
Cauliflower
The inaugural  Ealing half marathon took place today  in what were good conditions. All seemed well managed with streets lined with supporters. If it's going to become an annual event might even consider taking part!
More veggies for the week - a cauliflower that survived pigeon raids and a kohlrabi.

Kohlrabi

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Keeping in touch (important)

This week has been an interesting one for me - as well as making decisions I have had the chance to meet up with old friends which was a great blast!
Friday Take away
On Wednesday I went to an RTS (TV Society)  review of IBC (broadcast Show) - what was  fascinating was the way it was summarized by visitors on the panel - seems broadcasting needs to make sure it stays relevant and attracts the next wave of creatives and techies.
Metadata is one thing that can't be overlooked as the all powerful Samsung rolls out 'connected' TVs the next wave of viewers will not limit themselves to linear broadcast TV of the traditional type. Content producers and aggregators must be searchable and the data needed for these searches mus be there!

Enough about TV here are some vegetables

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Peas and beans

Peas and Toms

More beans?
Went to do some shed repair work following the break in and I also picked some more stuff - this included along with those illustrated Swede, Beetroot and a That's life type strangely shaped carrot.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The wild west

On visiting allotment site on Sunday really worried when I saw the shed door open...
Sad to say I (like many on the site) must report that I'd been robbed with some tools, radio  and a couple of old jackets taken - wouldn't think the perpetrator would get much more than £10 from selling what they took.
As you can see from this Leicester report this problem is widespread (and can be very sad).
Main lesson for me don't leave anything that you don't have to - no spades forks etc. were taken so I guess portability is important to the thieves. There's some damage to the shed door and bolt but not sure if it's better to leave pretty much as is -thieves can easily return and damage limitation seems the best way forward.
My plot neighbour wasn't surprised seems it goes with the territory (ha ha).

One of two
On a more positive note here's one of my two apples picked at the w/e bit sharp but nice and crisp.