Cool and zingy

This is the first of what looks like a bumper crop of cucumbers.  Luckily these ones aren't sour and spiky like some outdoor varieties so we are actually going to be able to eat them!  I wasn't sure as the seeds were just ones that were reduced at the end of last summer and came along with all sorts of other things with the packets stapled together in the corner - zinnias, sweet peas, pumpkin, passion flower, you name it!  The passion flowers didn't germinate which is a shame - but there's not much about them that inspires passion anyway.  Zinnias are far more passionate with their zingy coloured flowers ranging from puce through to burnt orange.   I like that - zingy zinnias!  We have finally had some good rain, lots of it, just falling out of the sky in great big bucket loads.  So Mark has been emptying the water butts into a big tank that is next to the well.  We picked raspberries yesterday and there are loads so more jam to make and it will be yummy.