The food I am eating is very repetitive so it’s not only bland it’s boring too. For lunch, spaghetti with a fifth of a jar of pasta sauce (and small amount of tinned tomatoes to spread it out a bit more) mixed with some greens from the garden and some kidney beans for protein. Same for dinner. Edible, filling but boring. For pudding this evening I had a slice of (now mouldy) bread with chocolate spread on it. Yay. A friend visited this today and we had a walk around the garden. We were looking at my meagre vegetable bed and I told her that initially I had planted six cabbages but the chickens had scratched them all up leaving me only one, still at least I had been ‘enjoying’ cabbage leaves in my bowls of pasta. “Are you sure it’s cabbage?” she asked me, “It looks like broccoli to me”. Then I remembered I had planted six broccoli plants as well as the six cabbages. When I checked, yes indeed I have been eating broccoli leaves all week. Still, it’s exciting I’ve never grown broccoli before. RIP all the cabbage plants. I guess this is why proper gardeners plant things in rows, I had gone for a pretty pattern interspersed with companion plants to detract bugs. The companion planting worked well though as the one remaining plant that the chickens left for me was bug free! After a quick google search I found that broccoli leaves are just as edible as cabbage leaves so I haven’t poisoned myself this week, I really must plan my vegetable patch a bit more this year. And maybe put labels on things. I am so relieved it is the last day tomorrow. Not only am I getting bored with eating the same stuff all the time but I am fantasising about foods I am missing. Also the open bottle of red wine in the house is calling to me. I am really looking forward to going to the Junk Food Café in Brighton tomorrow for lunch. Hope it’s not kidney beans in pasta. Don’t miss out on all the latest breaking news where you live. Here are four ways you can be sure you’ll be amongst the first to know what’s going on. 1 Make our website your homepage 2 Like our Facebook page 3 Follow us on Twitter 4 Register with us by clicking on ‘sign in’ (top right corner). You can then receive our daily newsletter AND add your point of view to stories that you read here. And do share with your family and friends - so they don’t miss out! Always the first with your local news. Be part of it.