Work work, and work...

4 June 2025 (Wednesday)

Up early and at my desk doing work and work work. As I've said before, ‘work work’ is what I do for Vanessa (ie Great Green Barn and For Earth’s Sake) and two other clients - in other words what I send out an invoice for to my clients of Paul Savident Limited.  What I call ‘work’ is everything else that I do that relates to earning money (or not!) which could be writing, or doing segments of A Week at the Plot, obviously doing Sunday Chat etc, etc.

In the afternoon, it not being the brightest, I got down to the plot and decided that I’d sow some seeds which I’d brought down from home - two types of lettuce and also some additional dill.  When I got down to the plot, there were quite a few things going on and I decided that it was most probably best to get the seedlings of mixed lettuce, parsley, coriander and rocket, all of which were residing in modules on a bench in as well as the one one dill seedling that we have. These went into the bed where I pulled out the chard, large chicory and common mallow a few days ago, maybe Sunday. The ground here isn't ideal, and there seems to be quite a lot of stones in it, though it'll do for this crop.  We’re due a lot of rain tomorrow, but of course, I still give them a really good water once they’re in. In the poly I prick out our tiny lettuce seedlings into modules - these are our own saved seed which does really well for us, and some Lollo Bionda (I think I’ve been saying Bionda Rosso… oops…) which is fresh seed bought over the winter.. Tomorrow, with it due to be very wet, I'll do the further sowing of the seeds I intended to do today quietly, whilst in the poly.​

Seedlings of lettuce, parsley, coriander, rocket and one dill ready to go in.

The root system on these lettuce seedlings is really good, and need a little teasing out.

Unusually, I give Vanessa a quick call when I'm in the shed. The allotment is really a sanctuary space for me and I don't do any work calls there now… though she’d called me about something and then texted to say “Ignore”, and me being me I wanted to make sure that I should ignore it for a particular reason, that reason being that Vanessa had found that what she was calling me about had already been done.  So, I did give her a call, and indeed it was fine to ignore it because it was about the thing that she’d found out I’d already done. 

Back at home, Richard's editing for either his vlog or a recipe that's going up tomorrow, so I leave him to it.

In the evening it's an old black and white film on You Tube, and bed, and my book, and lights out.


Weather:  Brighter start than yesterday, though still feeling a tad chilly.  

Breakfast:  Bran Sticks, yogurt, and banana
Lunch:  Carrot & Lentil Soup (from the freezer), Egg Mayonnaise, crackers cucumber and radish
Supper:   Quorn Garlic & Herb Fillets, and a delicious salad of tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, olives and radish