1. Kaufman rolls on his back in the sunshine, grabbing at my hand.
1b. I sit and hug Lily at the allotment. Later, she super-excitedly wants to find something to take to John when he arrives.
2. It takes me all afternoon to get the peas planted out because I have to dig over the bed again, then I decide to expand it, then I decide to cut the wood to fit the new size bed, then there are 40+ holes to dig, to fill with compost then plant out a seedling, then tie-up… The seedlings had looked so big and healthy in the tray but now, spread out, in the earth, they look scrawny. I tell myself they’ll look big and healthy again in next to no time.
3. Because of a mix up of dates, we get our neighbours’ fancy food parcel: one of those all-the-precise-ingredients-for-three-meals things. It’s nothing out of the ordinary – in fact we already have nearly everything in the house – but having it all laid out for him, and a recipe card too, inspires John to try some different techniques. We top it off with a distinctly non-box sticky toffee pudding and I feel well sated after a day of hard work.
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