I've decided I do have a green thumb.

Here are two little onions that I plucked today from my little mud basket in the spare bedroom. They'd probably become bigger, but I felt a bit like the monkey in my brother's favorite story of 'the owl and the raja', and like a very impatient Noni the garden gnome in the Enid Blyton fairy tale.

I remembered to take a pic only after I had got rid of the outer muddy layer. I used the onions in my vegetable fried rice today. And on the subject of bragging, I have to say, the veg/egg fried rice that I make is one of the best I've ever eaten.

'Tis the season...

It's Christmas season, and there's a nippy festive spirit in the air.

I'm seeing carolers all over the place. Even the buskers are now singing 'Jingle bells', even if one of them did insist that it was fun to ride a 'horsey open sleigh'! On one of the little gardens near where I live, I spotted these inflatable snowman and Santa coming down the chimey. The Santa was inflating and deflating by itself, so I was able to capture it at an angle that looks like an over-stuffed Santa has got caught in the chimney and has decided to settle back and relax while the elves get their gear to free him :-)

Ship ahoy!

Spotted at Greenwich a couple of weeks back:

We know the Thames is still used as a major waterway, but seeing is believing.