I’ve been down at the allotment this morning. The forecast is for a few days of very cold weather for the season and I wanted to get some horticultural fleece over a few things to give them extra protection.

I also took home a small harvest – some leeks that didn’t look likely to come to much more (some for dinner tonight and some small ones I’ve replanted in the polytunnel), the last few beetroot and a welsh onion that popped out when I was trimming down the nearby globe artichokes before putting on their winter protection.