Sweetpeas, Runnerbeans and the shed sink!

The smell of Sweetpeas is amazing! The seeds that we sowed in spring had finally grew in to beautiful flowers. The smell of Sweetpeas remind me of my holiday in Grasse South France. On our travels there we went to the Jasmine festival, I can only describe it as magical! Grasse is a town high up on the French Riviera, and once a year they celebrate the plucking of Jasmine. All the winding lanes have lines raised high up that gently spray the scent of Jasmine. I'm not sure why but whenever I smell the Sweetpeas on the allotment I reminisce about Grasse. I wish to go back there one day and would definitely recommend the Jasmine festival to travellers. Anyway back to the allotment! The runnerbeans were growing brilliantly and some were ready to pick. I was told it's best to pick them young as they are more tender. And tender they were!

When we were clearing the rubbish from the shed when we took on our plot we came across an old plastic sink with a draining board. We decided we would fix it up and find a place for it in the shed. We already have a camping stove to make cups of tea and hot chocolate and a sink made the shed feel more like home. We put a bucket under the plug hole to catch water and even made a tea towel holder!! All I need now is a water canister with a tap that I can hang above the sink! We are lucky to have a plumber on our allotment site who attached a sink to the water mains that provides us with drinking water to fill our kettles up with. I can use that to fill up the water canister when I get it. My daughter made a shelf above the sink to house our cups and washing up liquid.

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