Carrot

I awakened at the same unearthly hour as Mr H, so headed up to the allotment shortly after he headed off to Blackburn. I just fed the birds, did a bit of weeding, and picked a few things (including pulling up an experimental carrot!), then came back to work alternating with preparing things for H and A's arrival. I went up to Waverley bridge to meet them off the airport bus - it was lovely to see them again after what turns out to have been four years (since that week on the farm in Belgium).

I cooked some food while they poured over maps and books and dug around on various websites, rapidly concluding that three days wouldn't be long enough to fit in all the things they'd like to do in Edinburgh.