Hummus and a Leftovers Lunch

Richard made my Hummus recipe for a video, and I made the salad

9 June 2025 (Monday)

Awake at 6am and up soon after, though a tea in bed from Richard first.

At my desk by 6.30am doing the usual Monday work work routine, and also the usual work routine which is adding the upload of A Week at the Plot that will be live at noonish today to my own website (the Richard & Paul website links to it), and also various other housekeeping tasks, like scanning in any documents that  arrived over the past half week, as I keep 99% of anything important we receive by post as scanned documents.

Vanessa’s off for a check-up on the eye procedure she had about a month ago, so before she does we’re chatting over WhatsApp and doing the ordering that we need to do.  There’s also a get-in today as Man in the Moon is performing this week with the show Winnie-the-Pooh, adapted from AA Milne’s books by Vanessa’s husband Glynn Robbins who sadly died a decade or so ago.

Once Vanessa and I are done, I do more work work at my desk, and then take a break - though not from work, as I just shift to our other computer, the Richard & Paul one (ie not my work work computer), and look at what segments of this week’s upload of A Week at the Plot I can use for a short, and decide I’ll do the planting of tomatoes, including the preparation of the bed prior to the planting; I do one version as landscape and the other as a portrait, specifically how they are wanted as Shorts.  It’s all more work, though hopefully worthwhile!

Richard’s took my recipe for hummus - which is unbelievably simple, and does that as a video, so not surprisingly that’s one meal sorted today! Yay!!

After lunch - which was a delicious concoction of leftovers - it’s back to my desk, and then off to the plot for an hour or so… just pottering…though I do end up having our first indoor cucumber and outdoor courgette as a harvest, which go into supper!

A lunch of leftovers - curry sauce, cooked rice, and a tin of drained butter beans

​Supper’s hummus and salad and pitta - rather simple and rather nice.

This evening Richard Cumming’s travelling up through the Grand Union Canal with his Canal Boat Diaries and passing our stretch, going through Hanwell Locks… so of course, we watch, as we watch each episode.  It’s somewhat strange watching someone experience for the first time an area that you know so well… maybe Vivi felt this when we went on our walks of Swanage a few weeks back.


Weather:  Bright start, though seemed to have rained overnight.  Grey through the day then bright with sun late afternoon - though still feeling chilly.

Breakfast:  Bran Sticks, yogurt, and sultanas (banana’s still too green…)
Lunch:   Soup made from leftover Curry Sauce, two portions of rice, a drained tin of butter beans and some added water - a lovely risotto-style dish
Supper:   Hummus, pitta, mixed salad of red onion, tomato, cucumber, olives and basil