Chilly Chilies

It has been a good year for chillies. Herself has grown a range in our extensive greenhouse provision round the back of our baronial pile in this pleasant Suffolk messuage which time has gratefully forgotten.
While they have fierce names and impressive ratings on the Scoville Scale adding them to our dishes raw and cooked has resulted in an increase in flavour and not any great heat! Obviously it has something to do with the humour, airs and graces of the village.
A recent overnight trip had herself in fear for her chillies. She had forgotten to zip up the greenhouse. All is not lost and our chillies did not get too chilly.

A far cry from a story in the Grauniad about a chilli measuring 1,176,182 on the Scoville Scale.