2nd August 2025 A quiet joy
A quiet joy – allotment visit and a bit of edging of the plot, some watering. And we have signs of life….. the plug plants have yet to die, spinach, pak choi and bush beans seem to be appearing. Add some oregano into the mix. Meet a few other allotment holders as I’m leaving. Think the whole early thing works for me but isn’t the most social of options.
Home and a shop with C, nip for a coffee along the way and a beer on the way back.
Music
- Nick Drake – The Making Of Five Leaves Left
- Space Blanket – Sonic Balms For Soothing Souls
- The Soulboy Collective – Snob Fatigue
- Half Man Half Biscuit – All Asimov And No Fresh Air
- The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Mambo Atomico
- The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Get Ready
- The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Love EP
- The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Samboogaloo
Simple – bee and honeysuckle.
In bloom, yeah a revisit to the tarty onions. In other news we watch Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ as I sort out the chromebook. Need to go shopping and sort lunches for the week. Back to lates from Monday and it’ll be an exhausting week.
Glimmer 28 and it’s a bee on a thistle! First of the lates. HBB, good conversion and the value seems OK. Day flies. Cook a pasta bake that is kidney friendly, both of us decide it is bland and decide not worth cooking again.
Easter Sunday, and we’re hanging around. It’s our 3rd wedding anniversary too. Time for Glimmer 20. Catch up on the photos! Cook a roast pork for us for tea. We have a jar in the Lickers but other than that a chilled day.
Last Late thank fuck. Glimmer 17 is the compulsory dandelion clock shot. Day goes… I’m tired as fuck and grateful it’s all over.
Glimmer 8 got picked in the Fab Four. Always find it a valediction of the photography.
Tuesday and it’s the second late of the set. The bugger of it is that the motorway has snarled up as I go in so I end up on a late bus and jumping a train. Still gives me a chance to find Glimmer 1. And lo when I arrive at the station the ticket wombles are in evidence. Marched to the ticket office to pay for a ticket them having accepted bugger all options at Bryn. Day goes OK. Still not feeling great. Somehow it’s Tuesday and we have two days left after today. HBB again and the day is OK but not great. Team on the other hand is great, a supportive bunch. Lates are truly a pain in the arse, can’t sort out stuff early and get to work on time, get to work late and finish late. Get home, feed people sleep.
Nature’s beauty, bit of a rambling concept this one the constant generation and degeneration of nature, yadda yadda yadda! Lazy day, lie in, gentle amble via the chicken shop as we begin the Kidney friendly diet for C. Plan is some sort of Waldorf Salad for tonight. This is followed by a visit to The Coffee Shop.
Day off. Day starts with me taking the piss… literally to the GPs. Whereupon NHS IT strikes, they have to hand write the sample form because the printer is dead. On the way up a couple of photos. Need to look at them to see if they are prompt suitable. Jump a bus back home.
