Goodbye porridge and lycra, hello to oily cloths and vintage bikers.  That’s

 the line up for this weekend along with an OAP’s tea party and a wedding for 60 people, could prove quite challenging.  Our Glyndwr Way walkers have left along with their beautiful Labradors and our mystery man remains for the sixth day.

We picked up a car today after our own spontaneously combusted on the motorway, well just off the motorway near Runcorn’s gas storage tanks.  Both the police and the fire brigade were keen to put the fire out and drag the carcass away with alarming speed.  Just forty minutes separated us from driving at 70 mph to seeing the burnt out wreck being towed away and Linda and I being deposited a Runcorn Railway Station to find our own way home - just very bizarre.  The new car has been named “Claude” by my four year old granddaughter.  He’s a bit of a cross dresser, a ‘road warrior’ on the outside and buxom Swedish blond on the inside, strangely, its a combination I quite like.

Negotiated a new deal with an Organic meat supplier www.graigfarm.co.uk so we will be selling great Welsh quality meat which is fully traceable and none GMO; unlike the carrots we bought from the market last year, we just picked up the box but when we opened it the carrots were a very, very orange in colour all uniformly 22cms long and 5cm in diameter and imported from China!

Talking of food the wild mushrooms in the Elan valley www.mushroomforage.co.uk have been fantastic this year.  Our Thai housekeeper has spent hours picking them.  She cleans them, drops them in boiling water before slicing and storing them in the freezer.  There is also a guy who sells us Damsons every year so we made Mutton and Damson pie and I’m off to give the rest to my daughter to make Damson jelly.