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LAWNMOWERS

Lawns do provide space for relaxation and some animals like woodpeckers, but most are vanity projects. The market is estimated at about $3 billion per year. Add in energy costs and the chemicals and we individually pay billions to destroy wildlife. My neighbour sprays dandelions with something horrible despite her husband assiduously mowing it short very 2 weeks. Why – does she hate bees and hover flies?

Environmentalists like to blame farmers, and I assure they contribute to loss of habitat in a large way, at least they are producing food. However the 15-20 million lawn owners are doing their bit to destroy our planet for vanity. The ozone layer was almost destroyed by people using aerosols to smell … often … vile. Vanity again.

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SATURDAY MEAL

Strawberries bought yoghurt made. Tomatoes picked.

To make :- roasted aubergine dip; chilli and feta dip; toms and basil marinated; spinach and feta balls; courgette and feta fritters; lemon potatoes; herby potatoes; ladolemono; keftedes; spring green orichette; origano hallumi toms and mint yoghurt; Tzattiki; lemon cookies; lemon juice.

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TOMATOES- 18 July

250g today. Costings : seeds £7.50; soil £12; feed £8 = about £20. In shops cost of organic toms is about £5kg so I have picked £2.50 so far. Looking good as there might be a kg tomorrow?

A couple of chillies ready to. So sun dried toms with a chillie in could be good?

Tuesday – I just picked another 200g toms. Weds – 200g. Thurs – 50g; total now 950g

Sunday total 1360g Mon -+280g

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RWANDA PLAN

The justification for this abhorrence was that it would deter people from the dangerous attempt to cross the Channel/La Manche. 442 succeeded on Monday so plan is a failure – what is the next bullsit from govt to justify?

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WEATHER

So today should break records – with above 40C in SE and Midlands. 32C forecast here. 9am and it is 23C inside. Raab the fuc*ing nob says schools should not close and people should be resilient enough to enjoy the sunshine. 64000ha destroyed in Spain, Portugal and France with lots more in Italy, Greece and the rest of Southern Europe and North Africa and at least 10 fires reported in England and Wales. Resilient and enjoyment are not the words to describe these temperatures. Schools can be like furnaces at the best of times with poorly opening windows and lots of glass. Add in 30 sweaty bodies and the situation is ripe for serious problems.

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CLIMATE

09.50 Already 23C in my living room with all doors and windows open. Tomorrow estimated to hit 33C here I might keep an hourly tab to see how it increases. My memories of 1976 are not ones of the extreme heat, but of water shortages due to drought conditions. I suppose the water companies have been to busy filling rivers with sewage and directors/ shareholders pockets with cash to prepare for this entirely predictable event.

It has been 29C inside with all doors and windows open, and a breeze. Tomorrow does not look brilliant heat wise. Hit 30C at 17.00

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NOBS

Have used my quota of “NOBS and NOBETTES” for now on twitter. I have also watered the garden and hosed the inside of the greenhouse. Some chillies and red peppers developing. Flowers great but still a lack of bees and insects. A couple of bowls of water out for the birds. Californian poppies, evening primrose and chicory have all been great. Thyme and mints seem slow to recover after the great slug/snail war.

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BIRD FEEDERS

All was quiet then 3 long tailed tits, 2 robins, 1 great tit, 1 blue tit, 1chaffinch, 1 hedge sparrow in 5 mins. And then gone.

Reporter in the G said lack of butterfly’s might be down to earlier hatching – nob. They are disappearing.

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QUALITY OF LIFE THREATENED

The nobs standing to become PM via leadership of the nasty party. They have collectively been in power for 12 years and seen the economy crash beyond other countries (Covid is not an excuse). There seems to be no philosophy or real vision. Tax cuts so that we can level down.