h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It was summer in the garden today. Hot and sunny if a tad breezy. Mowed the lawn, strimmed the edges and fed and watered all the patio tubs and hanging pots. Nothing is growing as quickly as it should - I think this must be due to cold nights. I'm still taking the lupins I sowed in March in at night lest they freeze to death. Not expecting any flowers from them until next year any way.

Went into town to buy lock for the new security gates as they were painted whilst I was away. Very smart they look too. Took pity on 2 "million bells" and 1 serfina in the shop Kay always referred to as "Milkingstools". Didn't look as though they had been watered for a while so might not make it but will plant them out in a couple of days and give them the chance of life.

Mooched around in the afternoon deliberately ignoring the accumulated dust around the house. Mother coming to stay ( for 2 weeks God Help me! ) at beginning of June so thorough spick and spanning will be required before then. Started reading " The Food Taster" again. I spend too much time in ML and not enough time reading these days.

NOMS +3

Lucky you! It certainly wasn't in London - I was not too warm in a fleece, although the friend I was with seemed not to feel the cold. She was walking round in a t-shirt and frilly skirt, with bare legs! She did put a jumper on later this afternoon, though.

Back home, I am contemplating putting the heating back on, and certainly need socks when sitting in front of the computer.

annie, It looks a real summer's evening through the window but when I went to the bin a minute or two ago it was taters outside.

Unusual for it not to be hot in London though - hot and dirty is how I usually feel when I'm down there.

Well here in the country I prevailed on O/H to turn the central heating on. When gardening in full sun it's all right, but sitting in the study I was wearing three woollies.
O/H's youngest is here with boyfriend, up from St Raphaël where obvioulsy it was nice and hot. They are both newly graduated vets and owing to disastrous Malthusian French system when they were 20, they couldn't get into vet school so had to go to a very good Belgian university in Liège instead.
They can't bear the rain and the cold any more so they're loking for a decrepit vet surgery which they could rent and eventually build up a practice. Where are they looking? In hot sunny Gard. Lucky them.