But for some reason I just can’t manage to take it seriously.
I keep having visions of dogs being pawprinted (after the police had been chasing up leads, obviously) and getting dragged up from the cells into court to face charges. The judge or jury, or possibly both, would all be cats. The guilty dog would then be sent down to do a serious stretch of kibble.
Single reading (morning) again today.
This has all taken far longer than I’d hoped, but then I never expected to be incapacitated quite so badly when I signed up for it 🙁
Still, I got a bit more done today, and there are some fruit that are definitely looking quite promising.
More harvesting today. I’m picking tomatoes pretty much every day now, and my Tunnel of Love Apples is complete.
I also picked my first sweet pepper. This one actually formed before I planted the peppers out, so it’s a bit small, but it is nonetheless my first of the season and has already become lunch 🙂
Many people thought that Wessex Water wouldn’t need to impose one, but on the 18th August they finally did the deed. And one of the things that private individuals are not apparently allowed to do is water their fruit and vegetables using a hose. It’s fine if you’re growing them commercially, but if it’s just for yourself then it’s a big fat no. Seems crazy.
Amusingly, for the first time in ages we have rain forecast later in the day 😀
Fortunately I have around three thousand litres of water sitting in IBCs that I recently extracted from our well. Hopefully that will last me a while, but what I’ll do when that runs out I have no idea. If I can eke it out a bit perhaps the ground water will have re-filled the well by then. I suspect we could be into 2027 before the ban actually gets lifted given how much water will be needed to bring all the rivers and reservoirs up to their normal levels.
For next year (assuming I live that long :D) I need to think about how to store an awful lot of water to use on the veg plot next year. Fortunately it would be relatively easy to get access to the pipe that carries all the run-off from the gutters so perhaps I can work something out there. We do also have a damaged in-ground swimming pool which we don’t use because it’s far too expensive to run. It’s not even hard to get access to the output of the treatment plant that replaced our “septic tank” (a leaky brick box, basically). Whilst it might not sound that palatable, the water coming out of the system is apparently considered safe to release into a waterway, so it’s definitely worth looking into.
but I have absolutely no idea what it might have been. All I know is that I managed one BP reading in the evening.
Looks like the very definition of a self-correcting problem, to me.
The influencers getting bitten while chasing the perfect shark shot
It’s the sharks I feel sorry for.
Actually, I suspect the cuff just wore out. I don’t believe they’re supposed to last forever. Typical though, that it should give up the ghost when I’m supposed to be taking readings at home to give to the GP.
Fortunately it turns out that replacement cuffs are readily available online and easy to change, so once it had been delivered on Monday afternoon I was able to at least take a reading in the evening.
Little to report today other than finding this pepper hiding in the foliage in the polytunnel.
I shall definitely be having that for lunch over the next few days.
And of course there’s always room for a photo of oddly-shaped vegetables. In this case, a tomato.
First time in ages that I’ve managed readings morning, afternoon and evening as far as I recall.
So, we start off and end up pretty much where expected. Afternoon was a bit of a nightmare though. I was supposed to be going to see my daughter’s stall at the local show. Instead I spent much of it asleep.
