| Wed 1 |
Another first today. During lunch, for just a few seconds, a Garden Warbler skulking through the shrubbery outside the Dining Room window. |
| Thu 2 |
A very busy 2 days. Actually got done everything I needed to, but that’s not everything on my desk. |
| Fri 3 |
Sitting waiting for the supermarket delivery this morning, saw the clock on the cooker say 11:11. I’m always fascinated by times like this which show a pattern, like 01:23, 23:45. |
| Sat 4 |
Retrieved the two wasp traps that were put out last Saturday. Not a wasp to be counted – again! Very disappointing, but not a great surprise. |
| Sun 5 |
Another day struggling with the depression: sleeping too much; not eating properly; having to resist an excess of gin. |
| Mon 6 |
Payday; and time to do the monthly accounts. We’re solvent for another month – even after paying our outstanding income tax. Result! |
| Tue 7 |
We bought some Granny Smith apples a few weeks ago, but never used them. Still in their supermarket wrapper they’ve kept well on the sideboard and ripened to a greenish yellow. To my surprise they were rather good: crisp, juicy and slightly sweet: unlike the green cannonballs we are normally sold. |
| Wed 8 |
A lovely warm sunny day as it was 42 years ago when N and I were bound together at St Peter’s, Acton Green. |
| Thu 9 |
If anything happened today, I didn’t notice. Too busy analysing survey data. |
| Fri 10 |
It’s Saturday, so why is EastEnders on TV. Oh! Wait! It’s actually Friday! |
| Sat 11 |
There’s a big group on Facebook about the new recipe Felix catfood making cats ill. I’ve been running a survey to try to gather evidence rather than anecdote. Today I finished analysing the 499 records. |
| Sun 12 |
Just what are DPD doing delivering on a Sunday? They said the package would arrive Monday, but lo, here it is today. One does not expect this of any courier company. |
| Mon 13 |
What did I do today? Apart from starting the production of some pate, I have no clue. |
| Tue 14 |
So the hospital have finally decided to cancel my 2019/20 sleep study because of Covid. So glad they’ve finally caught up with reality. |
| Wed 15 |
Hurry, hurry, hurry … we’ve just realised we need the website updated … today! |
| Thu 16 |
Spent most of the day horizontal. Too dizzy in the head for vertical hold to engage properly. |
| Fri 17 |
Vertical hold working intermittently today, which is an improvement. But still not good. |
| Sat 18 |
What happened there? Awake-ish at 0600 with a purring, upside-down, cat for company. Next I know it’s 12 noon! But at least vertical hold is restored if not full functionality. |
| Sun 19 |
Got some British apples in the supermarket delivery this week – and so I should think at this time of year! Suffolk Pink (a fairly new and unusual variety) and Worcester. The Worcester were good, quite sweet but not over juicy. The Suffolk Pink, although more tart were juicier and crunchier which I prefer. |
| Mon 20 |
A day of fiddling about and catching up. Really fed up with the depression and inability to do anything. |
| Tue 21 |
Picked almost 3kg runner beans. Sadly they’ve been rather neglected so many are over grown and very stringy. But 4x 200+gm packs frozen. The rest stripped for the beans inside which gave another 600-ish gm. |
| Wed 22 |
Put some of the beans salvaged yesterday from our overgrown runners, in tonight’s casserole. And they were good. We Brits are apparently the only ones who eat the pods; everyone else grows them for the beans – and I quite see why! |
| Thu 23 |
A voyage of discovery trying to understand how to create flipbooks for websites without having to pay for someone else’s cloud storage. |
| Fri 24 |
Flu jabs are go! Invitation by text from GP. Booked in for next week. |
| Sat 25 |
That’s another acquaintance gone: Lord Gowrie who was President of the Anthony Powell Society. Former Minister for the Arts. Erudite, knowledgeable, and always friendly. |
| Sun 26 |
It could almost be Christmas: roast duck followed by biscuits and cheese (with red wine and port, of course). |
| Mon 27 |
Awoke early to belting rain, half a gale and Stygian gloom. A lovely sunny day by lunchtime, if still breezy. |
| Tue 28 |
Time to remove a bird’s nest amount of hair from my head. N doesn’t like it this short, but it’s a lot more comfortable and I can do it myself (with N’s assist). |
| Wed 29 |
It’s flu jab day, today! Let’s see if it knocks me out this year – like it does most years for a day or so. |
| Thu 30 |
Picked another 28 big red ripe chillies from the plants on the study windowsill. That’s 92 so far this summer, and there’s more to come; we should make well over 100. Almost all have gone in the freezer; they should keep us going for years!
  Chillies on the bush a couple of days ago (left) and today’s harvest.
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