Lyme Regis

Last weekend was a bank holiday weekend here in the UK. As well as having the Monday off, Mel and I managed to get Friday off, so we decided to head to the South West Coast and hope for good weather!

Mel and I arrived in Lyme Regis (Dorset) at around midday on the Friday and Pete arrived in the early hours of Saturday morning, having had to work that day.

We were so lucky with the weather all weekend - it got up to mid twenties on Sunday, which was the best day!

Lyme Regis - this part of the coast is known as the Jurassic Coast - due to all the fossils on the beach (rocks, not people!)

This part of the Lyme Regis beach is sand!! Quite amazing for the UK. However, we believe it has been brought in artificially!

View back along the coast from a walk we did

All the lamp posts have 'fossils' in them!

Traditional English beach huts!

Church outside our apartment. We thought it was really quaint - until the bells started early on Sunday morning!

As soon as we heard of this village, we just HAD to go!!

View of Beer from the carpark!

Pretty row of terraces overlooking the beach in Beer

My Garden!

I've managed to get myself a small garden plot (allotment) on a private farm just outside of town. It's just as well really, as my little courtyard was starting to look like a jungle!

My friend Liz agreed to come out and help me the first time I went - little did she know (or I for that matter!), that the plot was in a very overgrown state!

The first photo below shows how the whole plot originally looked (left side). The area you can see that we cleared is just under half the length of the plot, and it took us the best part of 3 hrs to do!

I've now planted out some corn, tomatoes, beetroot, sprouts, potatoes. I still have some more at home, which I'll take out once they're bigger!

I'm also growing lettuces, zucchini, capsicums, broccoli, cauliflower, swede, parsnips and strawberries, most of which will end up in the plot once I can rabbit-proof it!!

Before and after shot! Left hand side was what it all looked like before 3 hrs of backbreaking hard work! Thanks very much to Liz for all her help! First dibs on the produce goes to you!

My corn and tomato plants

Tomato plants with temporary stakes.

Beetroots, sprouts and potatoes