I haven't forgotten this blog - I've just been rather busy lately.

Among other things I have been learning XHTML & CSS to create a website for Mark's new aikido club - Wellsprings Aikido. Check out the results of my efforts. XHTML & CSS itself haven't been too difficult to pick up but IE's interpretation of standards, it's little foibles and catering for IE6 & 7 as well as IE8 has driven me to distraction! It will never be finished and I will never be satisfied of course but I'm happy with it as it is at the moment. I now intend to rewrite our yoga websites (www.yogawithanne.co.uk & www.yogawithmark.co.uk) to get away from using Publisher - another MS product with limitations and foibles! I will probably start with Mark's site, as it is much smaller, while I work out what to do with some of the material on mine.

I have also got a bit disheartened by this blog regularly being targeted by 'comments' in chinese each kanji of which is a link to a porn site! I am moderating all comments and so simply delete them. I guess they are using some sort of automated system and so I will be targeted until the end of time.

This last week I have started to harvest broad beans and strawberries. Delicious. I never liked broad beans until I grew them myself and I still don't if they are not young and straight from my garden. I'm not sure how I came to grow them in the first place since I didn't like them. But picked before the beans get big and that tough outer skin they are superb.

We have two varieties of strawberries fruiting. One is producing smaller, firmer fruit and the other big juicy fruits with fantastic flavour. Fortunately woodlice seem to be concentrating their attack on the first variety and not the second. I hope that they don't read this blog!

The kenyan beans are showing now but no sign of the runners. I think that I will try and get hold of some more beans this week and start again. Last week I bought some plugs of leeks and popped them in. I've never tried growing leeks before so fingers crossed.