How’s a trout that then?
At Braehead Community Garden on Sunday we had our spring fling and plant sale, which was great fun, especially seeing all of the Easter Bonnets people had been making for our family competition.
You’ll often find friendly rivalries in communities and I’m happy that in Braehead there is a fierce competition between all of our home bakers.
This usually comes to a head at the annual flower show, but it can also be seen at the tea and coffee stall at open days as well. Donna from Forth Environment Link was there demonstrating how to make pesto with wild garlic foraged around Stirlingshire. I never knew wild garlic could be foraged around Stirlingshire, but given how delicious this stuff was I may well be out picking at the weekend. One of our members whose first language isn’t English was totally bemused by the phrase `splat a Tattie’but proved to be very proficient at the game, picking up a few prizes. Perhaps my favourite part of the day was when one of our members turned up late because he had been fishing. He offered me a huge trout and another member offered to gut and fillet it. Community gardeners share skills and, hopefully eat better. I’ll find out later when I try my trout and wild garlic pesto for dinner. eyes glaze over after the first couple of sentences. At least that was my experience when I tried to get people enthused by my concept of “robo-hive”. Along with The Scottish Beekeeper, my quarterly journal of the British Model Flying Association arrived (I have a drone). My kids have told me that I’m now a stereotypical unfashionable dad and that a poor taste in cardigans is also in my imminent future.