No dig diary, 9th July 2026

Again it was far too hot to achieve much today, but I did manage to pot up a few more peppers.

Once temperatures had dropped a fair bit in the evening, I thought I’d have a poke about in Frankenstein’s Greenhouse. I’ve done nothing in there this year as the BP drugs just haven’t left me enough energy.

After removing most of the weeds that had sprung up, I discovered this. I’m as sure as I can be that it’s a Malawi Piquante that has survived over Winter from last year. I’ve given it a good water and hopefully it will produce some fruit later this year.

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What’s not to love about cabbage?

Got to love coleslaw made with veggies (and honey, in fact) from your own garden, though I can’t deny that the red onion isn’t ours as I’ve not lifted them yet. I’d eaten a few forkfuls before I took the photo. Doubtless my daughter will demolish a significant proportion of what’s left as I made it with Greek yoghurt rather than mayonnaise, which she doesn’t like.

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I wish he’d stuck with acting

I can’t deny that I was a fan of the “Lewis” television series and I very much enjoyed the interplay between Lewis and James Hathaway. Sadly Laurence Fox must have got worms in his brain or something and decided that however unpleasant a politician could be, he would be more so.

And so we end up in a situation where he feels the need to run as a candidate in the pointless Clacton by-election that Froggy Farridge has forced due to feeling that he’s not making himself look enough of a pillock already. Rightly so, the far-from-fabulous Mr. Fox is being given a serious virtual kicking on social media as a result.

My eye was however caught by the following comment on the cesspit formerly known as Twitter:

We are talking about the same group of people who voted for Farridge to be their MP in the first place, no?

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Have I fallen into a scene from “The Birds”?

When I was “out and about” this afternoon I noticed huge numbers of crows circling above the house. It was hard to get a photo as I couldn’t see them on the screen of my phone, but there were easily a hundred birds, possibly getting close to two hundred. They circled over the house, possibly riding the thermals off the hill behind us, and eventually disappeared off in a south-westerly direction.

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I am so not looking forward to this

Forecast for the next few days:

and since I grabbed that screenshot I think it’s got even hotter 🙁

I might have to emigrate to Lapland.

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Just scary

Full article

But it’s one specific paragraph that caught my attention:

A recent assessment, by the charity Action Aid in Ituri suggested about a third of respondents did not believe Ebola was a real disease, instead viewing it as a spiritual phenomenon or the product of sorcery.

Really? My watch doesn’t show which century we’re in, but I’m assuming it must be the 13th or 14th? You’ll have to excuse me now; I’m off to burn a witch.

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Of course it’s a stunt!

Farridge might claim otherwise, but if it looks like a stunt, smells like a stunt and is performed by a stunt, then it’s a stunt. The people who he fails to represent that vote for him might be too thick to realise it (and some of them do actually make pigshit look runny), but the rest of us can see right through him.

And if no-one but the usual deposit-losers stand against him, winning by whatever margin will prove nothing other than the fact that some people really are polluting the gene pool. Personally I’d vote for Count Binface every day of the week 😀

“Leave means leave”, Nigel, you frog-faced gimboid, so why don’t you bugger off back to the USA? I’m sure Donny is missing the feel of your head up his arse already.

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No dig diary, 8th July 2026

Too hot to be outside most of the day, at least for me. I don’t enjoy excessive heat to start with and I don’t think the BP drugs are helping me to cope.

Eventually however I managed to find somewhere in the shade where I wasn’t sweating too much and potted up a number of my pepper plants. As I have rather more than I expected, I think I’m going to ram the greenhouses with them as far as possible. I don’t really believe there’s such a thing as “too many peppers” 😀

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The weirdest gift ever?

What was he thinking?

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The second coming?

Perhaps

If he’s looking to cleanse another temple, he’s probably gone to the right country.

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