‘Bob’ the Croatian word for broad beans. That is how we refer to them in our household following my partner’s heritage. They’ve been flowering for about a month. I’ve been squatting in amongst them and anxiously checking them daily for about two weeks for a sign of the pods. I’ve been watching the bees pollinate the flowers. Poppet watches me watching the plants. I asked my mother-in-law, who has watched them grow all her life, to give me some assurance that they would appear. She did. And now here they are bursting through the flowers. I am so excited. Now I’m going to watch them grow daily. It’s a little insane I know, but its satisfying too.