Ah, what's that... an #allotment postcard video? From over a month ago? LOL... eh, mucking with quinces to make preserves, leaf moulding, some polytunnel clearance, and generally under-achieving.

Har har... downdetector is down 😂

An #allotment trip happened... we have our first 0°C* temperature forecast of the season tomorrow, so it was "clear out the tomatoes and chillies" day. But first... some bastard bird had already pulled out one of the garlics we planted last weekend! Grrrr... so I popped it back where it came from and hope it'll be OK. Interesting to see these have grown so quickly too, several little green shoots poking out of the ground. So we dragged the massive net we inherited with the new plot down to the grassy area at the end of the site and got it spread out and neatly folded. It is some sort of "sport" net according to the label. Like for soccer goals maybe? Anyway, we've roughly suspended it over the garlic beds. Only needs to be there long enough for the garlics to be a few cm high, 3cm maybe? They should be safe then.* Has actually been revised to 2°C now, though we have a 0°C forecast for Wednesday now.

Roughly hand crushed dried red seedless chilli flakes... a selection including piri piri, thunder mountain longhorn, kashmiri mirch, bishops crown, and a bunch of an unknown variety (bought as Scotch bonnet, definite wasn't!) The result is so much richer and tastier than any store bought flakes I have ever tried... though pretty much a whole dehydrator load of chillies results in just this ~90g of flakes in one small jar. Now to remember to be careful where I am putting my hands for the next day or so. 😅 #allotment #chillies #gyo

For "Italian Tuesday" this week we have "pizza". Subhead: Italian Tears 😭 Or is that: Italian Fury 😡 We have brought nearly the full force of Aussie Fusion Style to the pizza oven tonight. The pizzas are:<li><p>Thai Green Curry Turkey 🦃</p><ul><li>Thai green curry coconut cream base, w/ fresh green chillies^†, red capsicum^†, with madre veija yellow chillies^† and fresh coriander^† on top.</li></ul></li><li><p>Hoisin Beef 🇨🇳</p><ul><li>Hoisin base w/ fresh shitake, shallot^†, red chilli^†, yellow cherry tomato^†, mini mozzas, and fresh coriander^† on top.</li></ul></li><li><p>Hawaiian 🍍</p><ul><li>Hot ajvar base w/ anchovies and jalapeños^†</li></ul></li><li><p>Nduja — 🇮🇹 probably too hipster to make up for the sins above!</p><ul><li>Hot ajvar base w/ spanish olives, red capsicum rings^†, red chilli^† and mozza balls.</li></ul></li> They all used medium cheddar. Oh, and did I mention... the "thin crust" is wheat tortillas 😵 File your complaints with the ICC. Wait, what's that knocking at the door? OMG, the pizza mafia have found us! Oh no. 🐴† from the #allotment

Postal funtimes. I am very glad that Fatalii package their #chilli seeds in plastic packets, as the postie simply slapped our post down in a puddle. (It was definitely wet at the time, it has been wet since I left at 06.30 this morning.) I am somewhat less enamoured of what look very much like #GenAI #slop stickers. I had noticed some sloppish looking artwork on the website. Sigh. A pity. I don't care enough, nor am I mean spirited enough, to give feedback about how I feel about that. Though it is likely to influence future purchasing. Anyway, this shipment brings us: Aji Habanero Aji Mango Ancho Poblano Chupetinho, White Goronong Habanero, Hot Lemon Jalapeno, Yellow Naga Morich Plus some bonus freebies: Rawit Trepadeira Werner Freebies are appreciated, though they always kind of throw out my growing plans. #Allotmemt #GYO