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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday, on my desk this week are chilli peppers!! I thread them onto cotton to dry and then they hang in the kitchen to use through the winter.

as to my man bites dog cards,'judge blames drugs model' ooh!! also is one of my kolbie Blume watercolour teaching books, I love her style and find it inspirational, i was planning on doing some painting but that hasnt happened so far this week, yet so, whats on your workdesk? kyla

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So, this week is 800 weeks since Julia started What's on your Workdesk Wednesday and now the amazing Sarah has taken over. The idea was to post our first WOYWW entry and so here is mine - it was 29 Sept 2010, I cant believe I have been taking part for 14 years now!! this was my desk from back then

To be honst my desk hasnt changed much over the years, still the same mess!! It made me laugh looking back over my blog as I was posting veg harvests and chutney making as well as crafting 15 years ago!! Some things really dont change! Happy Whats on your workdesk Wednesday kyla

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 Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. So again, my desk is the kitchen, this is usually the way at this time of year with all the harvests from the allotments. 

Tuesday evening I made cucumber pickles. I picked about 5 outdoor cucumbers this week so I defo needed to make something with them!

Considering I didn't have enough rhubarb this year to make jam or chutney, i was worried i wouldn't have enough to see me through the year, but, a late flurry of green tomatoes, courgettes and cucumbers means I do have a few made and hopefully I can make a few more over the next couple of weeks. 

So, what are you making? Cooking, sewing, drawing etc? 

Kyla

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 Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. This week my desk is the kitchen! Yep, finally it's chutney making time.

My apple picker I made the other week didn't work, however, I stumbled across a chap in a tractor this week! Now, I often chat to strangers and he volunteered to use his tractor to reach the apples he spotted me eyeing up high in the tree!! Result! 

My outdoor tomatoes on the allotment I decided to pick a couple bags of them green. I doubt many will ripen now and there is blight on a couple plots down so I thought with all this rain to pick some whilst I can and kept in a paper bag at home they will slowly ripen too.

And these are the huge white courgettes on the plot!! This week I have picked 4 of these and 5 cucumbers too!! All my usual yellow and green courgettes failed this year but luckily this one plant flourished! 

I don't actually recall sowing it!! I am guessing they were seeds in one of magazines and unusual for me I don't appear to have made a note of bit, but it's producing and that means 'harvest chutney' making sessions are now filling my time!!

So, what's on your workdesk?

Kyla

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 Morning all, time for what's on your workdesk Wednesday update. Only a quick post as a bit rushed at the moment (apologies as didnt make it round all the return desks last week). 

On my desk I am threading apache chillies!! I usually grow a couple of small bush chillies each year and dry them for use throughout the year. For the past few years we have been self sufficient in dried chillies, only buying any marked down larger ones for pickling. 

They will take a while to dry, bit I will hang them in my craft room for a couple of months before packing them for use. 

Forgot my man dog cards this week too!!

Hope you are all good and happy WOYWW 

Kyla

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 Morning all, not tried a revised fruit picker (yet) as I had to do some quick repairs. My walking sandals, which, yes, I have had for probably about a decade, finally fell apart! I was walking and the soles flapped off!! 

So, in true crafting fashion out came my glues and various clamps and I set about repairing them. I know they will fall apart again, but, if i can get through the summer then they can be replaced, when, hopefully end of season sales start!! 

Also on my desk is the next pages of my 365 journal. Waiting for the spray paints to dry so I can cut up the daily squares and attach them. 

My 'my bites dog' cards this week are 'feds judge cruel movie mob boss'......ooh not sure where to go with that one!!!

So, what's on your workdesk Wednesday?

Kyla

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 Morning all, apologies but didn't make all the return visits last week, time just disappeared! So, this is the apple picker I tried making last week

I attached it to the end of the stick and went out to give it a try. However, now I know why people screw them to the sticks as it dislodged in the tree and I was left there poking the tree until the plastic bottle fell back down! 

However, my desk last night was the kitchen as I picked loads of elderberry and made my next batch of elderberry vinegar, woke up this morning and there is a slight smell of vinegar around the house but it's so worth it as I LOVE this vinegar. It's like a victorian shrub, so can be added to drinks, salads or food (we use it in pasta, chilli, stews). 

Hope you are all having a great week and kook forward to visiting and getting inspired.

Kyla

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 Hello fellow what's on your workdesk Wednesday peeps. I have a different sort of craft on my desk.....you may know I have an allotment, try to do dailywalks and since I was a kid I have foraged (or as a kid scrumping!!). So what's on my desk? 

Over the past couple of years I noticed the trees I often pick fruit from are higher, too high for me to reach so I thought I would have a go at making my own fruit picker from an old plastic bottle andy walking stick! Who knows? It may work and if not it didn't cost me a penny, just time! 

If you know any top foraging tips let me know!

Kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday I think I found a workaround to get my photos on my blog, fingers crossed. 

So, as is often the way this time of year my workdesk is actually my allotments! 

 

I have harvested some 2nd early potatoes, shallots, onions, broadbeans, lettuce and radish so far as well as berries.  Sadly my squash and courgettes and runner beans have mostly been eaten by slugs! 

However my nasturtiums have once again taken over!! I use the leaves and flowers in salads and pickle the green seed pods like capers, but once again there are far too many and are taking over! 

But either way, its still great to spend time there and harvest my own food.

Not crafting at a workdesk but it's what's taking my time at the moment! 

Kyla

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 Morning all, no idea but google won't allow me to add any photos! So you will have to guess that my desk is a mess!! On it was my paper scraps box and I was trying to put like with like into the small plastic folders. I say trying as I kept getting distracted!!

Thanks for all your comments about my strawberry vinegar the other week. I tend to use it for salads and in cooking when I need a sweet balsamic like vinegar, but it's also good in a chilli. I also drink it with soda water like a victorian shrub drink. Strawberry season is pretty much over on my plot for this year so glad I managed to make some.

I did have my Man Bites Dog cards and they said 'mob boss defends brave czar!'  If you follow me on IG then I will post the picture, sorry but no idea why it's not letting me on here!

Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday 

Kyla