Garden round up

Black Russian Tomatoes ready before Xmas !
YES!!!!! I have reached gardening Nirvana !!!! Tomatoes ripe before December 25 !!!!
(You can't see me doing the gardening rumba happy dance right at this moment,which is probably a fortunate thing for you !).
Black Russian Tomatoes,an heirloom variety,are actually a darker red than this pic shows...the flash brightened them somewhat.Have been picking cherry tomatoes for about a week now,since that yuk hot weather last week.But cherry tomatoes don't count anymore.
Cabbage the young chook perched upon her gate-keepers perch,threatening us with a splat! each time we venture through the lytch gate.She's perched up there every night...think she got a fright last week with the rain,as she's not had much of the wet stuff falling out of the sky at her in her lifetime.No eggs falling from on high either.
Beatrice the matron chook,snuggled into her hen house.The passionfruit vine is no longer her hidey hole for eggs and she's corrupted young Cabbage into laying the bum-nuts elsewhere too.Will conduct the weekly egg hunt again tomorrow,with the help of the Treacle pup,if she hasn't indulged in too much fairy bread of late.
Word on the web grapevine is that the Thompson catchment is blazing away and likely to keep burning for months to come.Water restrictions likely to get nasty,fast and water quality very likely to get plain nasty.
Plotting and planning more water barrels - which might hold 150 litres each IF we ever get rain!