I’m not a particular fan

of Giorgia Meloni, but I’d have to admit that if it came down to having to guess who is telling the truth, I’d likely pick her every time ahead of the Mango Mussolini.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20y1ygn707o

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Waiter! Waiter! These grapes are sour!

Why am I not surprised that having failed to win the Makerfield by-election, Frog-face Farridge is immediately blaming others, whether that be people who want Starmer out as PM (regardless of whether it happens or not) or people who voted for Restore Britain instead.

Perish the thought that it might actually be down to Reform UK Ltd. selecting a candidate who turned out to have a quite unpleasant history and who, frankly, needed no help in making himself look an idiot on Question Time. And I thought the grifter-in-chief told us that they now had very strong vetting policies in place? Perhaps what he meant was that they were making sure they excluded anyone who had an ounce of decency or compassion.

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BP readings back to “normal” today

Morning, early afternoon and evening…

150/96 was quite unpleasant, I have to say.

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Weird fungus-type “thing”

No idea what this is that has appeared in the polytunnel over the last couple of days. It has a powdery white exterior and underneath appears brown.

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No dig diary, 19th June 2026

Got through a fair bit of planting out today — half a dozen different types of lettuce, and two types of beetroot and leeks. The lettuces are next to my (podding) peas and whilst working there I noticed that peas are on their way 😀

Surprise, surprise, I also did some weeding, removing lots of creeping thistle sprouts from a small area that I’d cleared only two weeks ago.

Loads more stuff to do tomorrow. With a bit of luck I can chug through a whole lot of it before the weather gets unpleasantly hot on Sunday (according to the forecast).

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How does that work, then?

I do understand the physics involved, but thanks to the current global political situation we see plenty of photos of oil tankers and cargo ships on the news and I can’t help but think that they really shouldn’t stay upright. They so look like they should roll over 😀

I guess it’s similar to the fact that an aircraft weighing hundreds of tonnes can fly.

It’s all magic, I tell you. All magic!

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Make it make sense

As they say on the interwebs.

Missed doing a BP reading this morning, but didn’t feel great this afternoon and felt that this reading explained it.

But then I took a reading this evening when I felt much better, and

What?! How does that make sense? I might have to discount it as experimental error and see how the next few days go 😀

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Horsefly World Cup

It’s the first hydration break, and I am presently leading 17-1. Little blighters were coming at me mob-handed this afternoon, within a couple of minutes of my arrival in the veggie plot. I’m slightly worried that by killing off so many in previous years, I’m evolving a smarter horsefly 😀

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No dig diary, 18th June 2026

More weeding again today. I was hoping to get stuff planted out too, but… life. Nevertheless, the current compost heap became larger by five heavily loaded wheelbarrows of weeds, mostly nettles and cleavers. I kind of like weeding cleavers. You can just throw them at the wheelbarrow and they stick there. On the other hand I do have a few light welts on my arms between where the cuffs of my gloves protected them and the ends of my t-shirt sleeves.

My weeding did however reveal a crop I was more than happy to harvest.

Plenty more to come. Just need to unbury them first.

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Seems consistent with last time

BP readings for yesterday, morning, mid-afternoon and evening.

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