Horses and allotments

[tayles]

Went to check in on the foals and mares last weekend! The two foals are looking so good, really pleased with their progress.

Solero was a bit standoffish, but she's growing really nicely considering how tiny she was when she was foaled. She's got lovely straight knees and is looking a lot like some of the Havana Grey two year olds running at the

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[tayles]

There are some rules on naming, but they're not too heavy - no initials, no horse-terms (i.e. no Night Mare), no actual people names without written permission from that person, nothing vulgar or obscene or in poor taste. There's also some restricted names - like there'll never be another Frankel. We didn't name any of the mares (Cape Liberty is by Cape Cross, Wootton Creek is by Wootton Bassett, and more interesting, Solemn Pledge is out of Lovers' Vows) - the foals names are just nicknames for use at the yard (chosen based on phonetics and food theme - Cape Liberty - Caramac, Solemn Pledge - Solero, Kirsch gets Fondue as there's a piece of music called The Kirsch and the Fondue), they'll get proper names if they start racing.

Yeah, we've had to do a lot of watering, and a lot of plants are a bit behind (my tomatoes are so late ripening TT_TT). We need to plan better next year. I'm literally drawing up a planting plan. It's been a couple months since we started harvesting the courgettes - we've mostly had them griddled, but we've also had them baked, raw in salads, or in salsas. I have plans for courgette pasta tonight, and possibly courgette cake for cake Wednesday at work next week. So we are using them! But yeah, it's a lot, luckily the plants are all fruiting a little bit at a time, so we just have a couple a day.

[damaramu]

Well, there's always chutney, assuming you eat chutney.
Courgette cake? I'd never imagined such a thing. Would it not be rather dense?