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No dig diary, 2nd May 2021

The tomatoes and calendula appear to have survived happily enough in the polytunnel over the last week or more, so I decided today to finish planting the rest out (I only did half the bed last time, “just in case”). … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 1st May 2021

Things have been quite slow recently because of the weather. I have lots of plants waiting to be planted out, but we’re still getting frosts overnight and the air temperature is even getting below freezing in the early hours of … Continue reading

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Swimming, 30th April 2021

Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice… I wasn’t expecting much today having had another poor night’s sleep as well as my muscles still feeling a bit tired from yesterday. There were three other people in the lane, one of whom in … Continue reading

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Swimming, 29th April 2021

It’s strange how these things go… Some days you just can’t get anywhere near where you know you can be, some others you exceed your expectations by miles. I’ve not been sleeping particularly well this week. Often I’ve been quite … Continue reading

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Swimming, 27th April 2021

It was a bit of a chaotic trip to the pool today. I got halfway to the pool to find the road closed. No warnings or diversion signs or anything helpful like that beforehand 🙁 So, I had to turn … Continue reading

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Swimming, 26th April 2021

An earlier swimming session than normal today, so I could get my hair cut for the first time in four months! How much faster will I be now? 🙂 I reduced the interval to 95 seconds for today as planned … Continue reading

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Swimming, 23rd April 2021

A repeat of yesterday’s set, which I honestly thought probably couldn’t go any better, but in fact I had around a quarter of my 50m swims below 47s and only a couple in the 48s, so I was both pleased … Continue reading

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Swimming, 22nd April 2021

Having managed the previous sessions without too much bother today I knocked five seconds off the interval, bringing it down to 100 seconds. Until such time as I get closer to having twenty to twenty-five seconds rest that’s all I’m … Continue reading

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Swimming, 20th April 2021

I stuck with the same plan for today as yesterday and very happily found that for all of my 50m reps I was a comfortable second faster than I’d managed only twenty-four hours previously. Even the 25m reps were no … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 19th April 2021

As I posted a couple of days ago, most of my cucurbits have been doing fairly well, the exception being the courgettes. So today I sowed the remaining four seeds as a backup in case the others don’t germinate at … Continue reading

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