June is peak flowering time here in the UK, with flowers abounding both here in the micro-holding's cottage-style garden, and in some local fields. Recent renovations have been in satisfactory 'making good' mode, ensuring the valued conservatory space is sound for another few years, and good to be able to employ local guys to do the work -community alive and well hereabouts.
The growing season has gone pretty well with good crops of beans, potatoes and spring greens, and useful looking follow-on crops such as peas, swedes and beetroot. Soft-fruit in the form of strawberries and raspberries have also done well, available to eat as 'afters' each night now for several weeks, boosting the ol' vitamin C intake, and adding to the many delicious tastes attributed to this fecund time of year. Amazing to some extent what a small area can produce, along with bolstering the freerange, independent spirit ------
People, especially apparently the younger generations, are kicking against the long UK austerity drive - apparently seven years long and still going - caused initially reportedly by financial malpractice, which one conspiracy theory suggests may have been deliberate, as a means then of bringing in 'control' measures. It seems that as might be expected living standards for those 'under the cosh' are being squeezed, whilst it's perceived that a rich elite have not participated too much if at all in the pain. Hard to see, maybe, how the present government's declared aim of a 'fairer society' could be achieved without addressing this problem ---- ?
The micro-holding also acts as the 'green oasis' retreat, which may prove useful , in a seemingly volatile world, in the process of retaining sanity and common sense ----- ?
