1. The soil is warm – I’m glad I filled the pots the other day.
1b. I don’t care for tomato seeds – they look almost false, like shreds of cardboard – but I always enjoy a plump squash seed and the shininess of the beans.
1c. I listen to a fascinating story about a chef in the Antarctic and another one about a man who convinces people to leave the Ku Klux Klan through friendship.
2. John comes by the plot on the way home from the train station. We sit in the sun and we talk about our days.
2b. It suddenly feels like there is a lot to do at the allotment – a lot of beds that still need preparing, a lot of weeds to pull – but I remind myself that there is still time, that things don’t really start heating up there for another month or so. I take the time to tidy out the greenhouse and transform its glass from green to clean.
3. I enjoy flicking through my sketchbook to see how far I’ve come in a short space of time.
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