Lovely Weather For Onions

It was not a good day to be a market trader today as it has been raining on and off all day. A friend emailed me this afternoon and said "nobody in their right mind would have been on Ilkeston Market Place this morning if they didn'y need to." Well unfortunately we needed to but there was none of the usual hustle and bustle and we were soon off back home.


I feel for those who have to work Monday through Friday as I remember when in the same position it often seemed to rain at weekends. Not strictly true of course but one of the major benefits of retirement is that you can usually pick and choose when to go out and when to stay in, when to do jobs and when to leave them. I'm so glad though we planted the onion sets yesterday. Today's rain should do them a power of good.