Happy Friday!
I don’t know what the week has been like where you are but it’s been hot here, this week I walked to M&S to buy some trousers for work and came out with new pj’s and a nightdress. That basically sums up my week.
My plans for the weekend are all about the allotment, working on it, the open day and generally grinding it out and with any luck…haslet.
This week posts from me were the usual miscellany, a recap of reading in May and an update on the plot.
And here are this week’s links:
From Heathrow to Brexit, showmen have taken over politics
The problem with extreme male body transformations
Who rules the world? Narcissists. Let’s stop giving them all the breaks. This
Social media drips with wrongheaded opinion masquerading as violent certainty. The buzziest television programme of the day, Love Island, is essentially just a petri dish of obnoxious self-adoration. Untalented colleagues get promoted above you because they are unafraid to gelatinously network. The world’s sole remaining superpower, for crying out loud, is run by a man who looks like the cartoon you’d draw for a monkey to make it understand the basic concept of narcissism. It’s everywhere. We’re drowning in it.
Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood. Because I made the opposite choice, I’m fascinated by people who do this.
Are women’s breasts getting bigger – or is it just our bras? It’s weird, I’ve been using bravissimo for years, and I now own an M&S bra in my size. This is the London bubble, I guess!
The Science Isn’t Settled on Chronic Lyme. I think this is worth a read, I’m sitting on the fence on this one, but I know a couple of very sane people who have a diagnosis of chronic lyme and whether it’s lyme or something else, it isn’t in their heads.
Chronicler of London gentrification priced out of Shoreditch. This is pretty much peak London. I love my city but it needs two things, price protection and stronger provincial cities….
The raspberries are amazing at the moment, and take ages to pick
Everything is doing well and the next couple of weeks of predicted warm weather will be great for giving everything a boost, if not for the amount of watering I’m going to need to do. We have full size beetroot now…
Coming out was the most amazing sky I have ever seen….
Which almost but not quite made up for the 10 bites and massively swollen hand (allergic reaction) I came back from the plot with!
That’s my fist, can you see all four knuckles? Exactly, it’s not normal…
This week is going to be hot. So my life is going to be work, water, home, sleep. That’s it, I don’t expect to have a life other than that, therefore, I’ve actually got my act together and done some food prep which is good. This week, I want to try going to work on the district line because it has air-conditioned trains but I have no major goals for this week, other than to keep on top of the watering and get through a big week at work!
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!
