The first was a a child's chair painted bright pink. A neighbour had put it out for the dustbin men to take away so instead of that it came home with me. It's a wooden chair with long legs so I presume it is a kind of high chair although there is no way of securing a child in it. I thought it would look good in the garden with a plant on it.
Last Thursday we went to the Great Yorkshire Show (I won the tickets so that didn't cost anything). We always spend a long time there and as the weather was so beautiful we had no inclination to hurry hime or sit in the leaving traffic.
Instead we sat outside the pavilion basking in the sun. As it was the last day of a three day show I know they sell off or give away things at the end of the show. I started noticing people coming out of the pavilion with big bunches of flowers so I went to investigate prices.
I stood and watched as they dismantled a stall that had show chrysanthemums on it. They were selling them for something like 16 for £5. Isobel and I wandered a bit further down the pavilion when a man said to me ' Do you want a tomato plant?' Warily I asked how much to which he replied the magic word 'FREE'
Now this wasn't any old tomato plant. For me to carry it I had to have both my arms around it and staggered back to where my partner Peter was sitting outside. Peter is quite good at improvisation and as he had bought some webbing straps he devised a harness for the plant pot. Isobel and I took a strap each and were able to manage it between us.
It is a cherry tomato plant and is now residing in my conservatory. I took some photos and just for scale I have put a tape measure across it at a one foot marker. There are literally hundreds of little tomatoes on it waiting to grow up and ripen.
