… and there are many of them, to be sure, as to why I keep a blog is that I can refer back to it and find out when I did something. <\/p>\n
I forget all too easily these days what I’ve been up to and when I was up to it – and just remember, before you start laughing, that you will be as old as me too one of these days too.<\/p>\n
So I looked back and found that it was exactly a week ago today that I planted the courgette, cucumber, gherkin etc seeds, and sowed some lettuce seed in pots.<\/p>\n
And while I was sorting out the herb buckets (those nice heaps of oregano and tarragon have gone – cut down now and hanging up to dry in my attic) I happened to notice that the lettuce were growing.<\/p>\n
Blimey! That was quick!<\/p>\n
So they had a really good watering, and they need it too in this heat.<\/p>\n
And so, out of curiosity, I went to look at the beds where I had planted the courgette etc seeds. <\/p>\n
And guess what? <\/p>\n
Absolutely! They are rearing their pretty little heads too. <\/p>\n
There’s even some beetroot from what I planted a week earlier, but the carrots are once again doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it seems to be all go in the garden again.<\/p>\n
I didn’t manage an early start today, unfortunately. It was so hot that at 03:00 I was still up and about and I would probably still be flat out on my back right now if a hornet hadn’t come in at about 08:45 and chased me around the bedroom. <\/p>\n
Still, makes a change from Percy Penguin, who doesn’t feature in these pages half as much as she deserves, chasing me around the bedroom.<\/p>\n
This afternoon I started to draw up the plans for the next stage of construction work, and began to make a list of the bits that I need. Right on cue, Rosemary rang me up and asked if I would be interested in going to the Brico Depot in Montlucon. <\/p>\n
Seeing as how it won’t be very easy getting all of this wood onto Caliburn’s roof rack all on my own, and it’s no skin off my nose whether I go tomorrow or Saturday.<\/p>\n
And when I heard that half a day’s gardening was the reward on offer, then that was it, mercenary that I am. It’s a good job I emptied out Caliburn yesterday, wasn’t it?<\/p>\n
In between the surveying I dragged out the tabletop washing machine and did a load of washing seeing as I had a pile to do, it was gorgeous and warm, and the water temperature in the home-made 12-volt immersion heater that I use as a dump load for the surplus solar energy was at 60.5\u00b0C. <\/p>\n
To finish off the day I treated myself to yet another solar shower seeing the temperature of the water in the black plastic solar hearing box had reached 41.5\u00b0C. And that was gorgeous too<\/p>\n
It’s all go here right now, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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