1. A few days has made all the difference to the first green beans and the to-be pumpkins. (The yellow summer squashes and the other winter squashes need to get a move on but the pumpkins are doing brilliantly.)

1b. I start counting how many chillis are underway but I quickly give up.

1c. I lie on the bed when I come back from the plot and Lily lies next to me. I love her heavy warmness.

2. A dinner that’s rather thrown together but surprising good. John calls it a “Polish stir fry”.

3. Silliness with bad puns at bedtime. We rife on the name “Duolingo”: my first effort “Duolingoat” (an app for certain cloven animals to learn different languages) is my favourite, my “Boooo-olinghost” (a language app for spectral beings) stretches things way too far.