Time to reopen the Little Shop at the end of the garden!

Oh yes, definitely. Walking round a ghost town on Sundays and Wednesday afternoons was quite novel. Doesn't happen these days.

My little shop is now out of sugar snaps, but I'm reliably informed they'll be back next year, along with some mangetout! Meanwhile the shelves are piled high with CFBs, and there's rumours of a new frozen foods department.

Not buying anything today, nothing but courgettes!

Plenty of raspberries, apples and pears now also cabbage and I just got the last cauli in stock. Also the first red pepper and even some hazel nuts.

My little shop has full stocks of fruit and veg I'm spoilt for choice.

Popped into the little shop today for raspberries and came away with beetroot, apples, radish and some dried bean pods. The nice shopkeeper told me that if I keep them a while and pop the beans out, I'll be able to eat them in winter and grow my own next year. he even suggested that if I had too many I could share them with friends. I'll think about that.

My little shop has run out of cherry tomatoes for the foreseeable, and although they keep promising to get some big tomatoes in stock soon, they never turn up and the shopkeeper makes lame excuses about the weather! No green beans, either - apparently they're stockpiling to avoid shortages next year.

They did have some nice beetroot, though, and the cos lettuce is still plentiful.

Special offer on sweetcorn so had a dozen to start with for the freezer. Might get some more tomorrow.

Turnips are now out of stock but Parsnips are on the shelves.

Big tomatoes finally in stock, and green beans have made a reappearance! Only a few at the moment, but I've been promised more to come, along with beetroot.