Kristian Strutt

Thank you. It was, as ever, immensely enjoyable, and we will always come back! Would love to resurrect doing artwork and other things with you, and hopefully returning to Old Sarum in future seasons 😋

Plums apples and chard.

Mirabelle plums

Blenheim orange and ashmeads kernel apples

One last #allotment post, this a second harvest this evening, of apples, garlic, plums and chard. Including ashmeads kernel, Blenheim orange and Darcy spice apples.

Harvest of courgettes cucumber, sweetcorn

Only away for a week and there's a bit of a glut

After eight years the old damson tree has fruited. Also the eight year old Italian plum.

Sweetcorn and beans

Always like this time of year, but wondering what to do with the kilos of courgettes. Only a week and they're ginormous!

Corn, beans and courgettes

Pumpkin plants

Velvet queen sunflower

Beetroot bolthardy and cylindra

Morning up the #allotment #gardening and lots to harvest, including beetroot 1/2

This is truly fascinating.

Still the best way. Still teaching students this, and really useful in a small area where you can't fit in a 7m turning circle 😁

Just finished episode 3 and, not withstanding the overdone romance, it's a cracker, and Helen Mirren is excellent.

Outer bailey GPR survey

Outer bailey GPR survey

GPR survey within the inner bailey

Purbeck ice cream. Gnom.

More survey with our Y1 students @englishheritage.bsky.social Old Sarum. A morning in the outer bailey with automation, and this afternoon we are in the inner bailey, where there is at least ice cream 😁 @archsoton50.bsky.social

Rained off survey @englishheritage.bsky.social Old Sarum, so visiting @salisburymuseum.bsky.social with the students. First visit since the revamp and it looks amazing. Some newly displayed material from Old Sarum via Salisbury too @archsoton50.bsky.social

This being a toddler I would have thought it would be more ' there's a mark on the ground there where the bowler's been following through'

It's just not cricket, you know??!!

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Nooooo!

Always reminded of the old Monty Python sketch about Nixon that easily applies here. 'Boris has had an arsehole transplant.' 'Have you read the stop press? The arsehole's rejected him!'

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I had a mate who came home with amoebic dysentery from a dig in Egypt.

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Walnuts

Polytunnel tomatoes chillis peppers and cucumbers

Paris pickling cucumber

Lettuce beans courgettes and cucumbers

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That's interesting. I thought Katie was quite late, but I'm probably muddling names up 😁

Beauty of Bath, an early variety made even earlier by the hot weather.

Some nice salad stuffs, beans and apples this evening.

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