Lockdown has been reasonably tolerable because of the lovely weather this spring (although I guess we will pay for it later in the year). There have been few days with rain or mist, and while we had the cold east wind (the Bises), it was tempered by the strong sunshine. The lovely light and the warmth have meant that sitting in the garden or strolling around the garden admiring new growth have been good ways to shake off itchy feet and feelings of doom. But all good things come to an end and a depression (meteorological) is coming through bringing storms. Just after lunch we could see them lining up further south in this screen grab from the lightningmaps.org website.
Then they got closer and I could look at the map and see where the lightning struck as I heard the thunder outside (that really is quite fun to do, if you are a sad Herbert like me!).
We've had 5mm of rain during the afternoon and the air is now humid and rather cooler. Being outside is less of a distraction, which is a shame as I have now finished my report, and don't know where the next work is coming from!
I have had another welcome distraction this afternoon, as I was approached by an academic researcher who is looking at British Art and the Spanish Civil War as to whether we had anything in my Dad's archives that might add interest to his thesis. While I found nothing of interest to him, I did enjoy going back through the stuff I have written up to date, and thought I perhaps ought to go through my "To Do When There Is Nothing That Will Pay Bills" box of stuff and move that project on a bit. Surely lockdown is the time to get that sort of thing done, and I should be grateful for the chance to crack on with it?
Looking back over little projects in this run of blogs, I think I posted photos earlier this month of a tray of modules sown with butternut squash seeds. Half of the seeds had been stored in the fridge and half in a paper bag in the seed box that lives in the living room. I think it is now time to reveal the result of the experiment - 6/12 of the fridge stored seeds sprouted, compared to 12/12 of those in the bad in the living room. Now I have to decide what to do with 18 butternut squash seedlings.
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