I think we must have had a conversation yesterday about how Alice ate oats with cinnamon and raisins, as this is what Heather made us for breakfast this morning, and I dared to try her jam on my toast afterwards which was very nice. Because she was in a rush to drop Hamish off at the bus stop, when he returned she needed a fresh cup of coffee, and so we sat around and talked for a while, which meant we didn't start work until 9.30. We started off picking the bee balm petals, which she will make bee balm tea with. Apparently you can't buy it in the supermarkets so I'm looking forward to trying that. When we had stripped the bee balm pretty much bare, we helped Heather empty the trailer from the market gardeners. It was full of celery, leeks, broccoli, watermelon which we dished out to the chickens and pigs (I was amazed at the quantity they can put away!), saving the best for ourselves of course.

We got back up to the house, and Heather cooked up some patties she had made out of the leftover vegetables from last night, which we had with beetroot, salad, cheese and cold meat, accompanied with her tomato relish. I then helped her cut up tomatoes, which she made savoury tomato sauce out of, whilst Alice researched Bay of Islands activities, and I read her book about cutting sugar from your diet. Apparently there is no hormone to register you have eaten too much fructose, since in caveman times it was something you only came across very occasionally, and so you would eat and eat and eat it, to store it, but nowadays it is so bountiful that this is no longer a good thing. There was a recipe for a peanut butter and cocoa drink which sounded amazing.

Heather had to do some of her crystal work tonight, and so we ate tea without her, which was similar to last night's meal except we got to try her sweet chilli sauce, and we got cake leftover from the supermarket afterwards. After we had done the washing up, we (including Hamish) decided we'd be saving the pigs from getting health problems by having another slice, and then Hamish showed us Ruby the possum and David rolled up some doc leaves to feed her with.