Happy Monday! Welcome to the week…
Today is the anniversary of Waterloo, which means that Ma and I will be whatsapping the key moments of the battle…it’s our thing…
The French
Last week, I learnt that the Isle of Man has two extra May Holidays a year, so that from May to August, they have a Bank Holiday a month. The question is, is it worth living on the Isle of Man to get the extra days off?
Adjusting to a new commute and workplace has been harder than I expected. For a start, it’s earlier, so I’ve been up and out of the house between 7 and 7:30 every morning and at my desk for 8:30 (mostly because we hot desk and this is the only way to get one!), you’ll have seen it on the blog and I’ve seen it in the state of my house!
I managed to reset the flat this weekend but my goal for this week, I want to work on getting out for a walk at lunchtime and making sure that I’m prepared for each day before bedtime. This week I do have a morning that starts at 5:30 and trip to Hampshire for a team activity day so lots of rest is going to help too…
That done, I watered and added more compost to the big squash bed. The squash bed was covered with ‘loves lies bleeding’ which needed to go so transplanted them to two of the circular beds. In the third bed, I set up some canes and planted some runner beans.
Then we had visitors.
Fred was very confused and excited. We sent them home with rhubarb and broad beans and salad and spinach and tomato and basil plants! Then we got back to work. We put mot compost down in the tomato bed that it not doing well, weeded and watered all the other beds.
Then we harvested. Raspberries, strawberries, beetroot, spinach, salad.
I was impressed. Peas won’t be that far behind
I also sowed another bucket of radishes, and planted out the basil in the tomato beds and the last three tomato plants in a bucket. 
The courgettes have their first flower, they are behind but hey I’m just pleased they’re alive!
This week, I had a total wardrobe malfunction, skirt ripped all the way up the back. Thank goodness for long cardigans.
As I did last year, I am ‘celebrating’ World Gin Day by going to Junipalooza. This year with Ma, Sarah and Ryan but if you’re not sure how to celebrate, Monkey has you 
