First Strawberry of Summer

Offically summer does not start until 21st June, but today the Haddock garden yielded its first Strawberry of the season. (see photo below). It was gleefully consumed by the Juniorette, who gave it the offical taste verdict of "yummy". If lucky, (or quick enough) the elder generation of Haddocks may get to try a couple of the juicy berries over the next few months.


There was an interesting article in the Guardian Newspaper the other day saying that British Gas in the UK, has announced plans to supply roof mounted mini wind turbines to customers to generate their own electricity. This is exactly what I would like to have on my roof, and the beauty of the system is that it feeds the generated power from the converter into your mains ring via a normal mains socket.