The new job requires early mornings. We hotdesk and the commute is a bit longer than the last one. So at the absolute outside ie to be in the office at 9am, I need to be out of the house at 7:30am, as a general rule I’m out of the house between 7.15 and 7:25 and am usually in the office somewhere between 8:30 and 8:45. Which works.
It’s easy right now because it’s summer, it’s not going to be any where near as nice come January!!
Today, the longest day of the year, requires me to be up at 5am for a trip to Hampshire. It’s 6:37 and I’m at the station waiting for the train. Yes I am early, I’m paranoid about missing trains and I I don’t have his maths skills but my grandfather’s blood runs through my veins and he was actually early for his own funeral, such was the power of his timekeeping!!
On the plus side at least it’s sunny!
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 
