Sage monster

An early visit to the allotment - did a bit of tidying, heard the 11am gun from the castle so observed a couple of minutes silence by myself. Thought particularly about my pal Roger Nutbeem who was killed on the Sir Galahad in the Falklands. Strange to say, it started raining as soon as the gun went off, then stopped as soon as the second gun went.

At home I dealt with the other half of the pumpkin (experimentally freezing it in chunks, after blanching). Huh - then discovered that the freezer door hadn't been properly shut since this morning, so it had been toiling away and filling up with frost. Now having to defrost it. Pah.

The sage bush looks as if it wants to take over the entire allotment - it keeps trying to overwhelm the poor little blaeberry plant (just beyond it, with the red leaves). Anyone for a sage branch?