Heatwave

After really really cold sprin we now have a heatwave. +32C is way too much to my opinion.

I can work outside for maybe an hour in the morning after I have took 'Suma for a walk, with cats, of course. Today it was way too hot by 10am, even though my polytunnel is in the shadow until that.

I have still some salad plants unplanted to their final pots/places.

This year I have a plot, I might have mentioned it before. It's only 1 km walk, in my parents' field, nice smooth sandy soil, which keeps moisture but doesn't get soaked even in constant rain. It's unbelieveable how different it is to grow anything in soil that is so wonderful! The other option is of course my dense clay...

But my corn looks nice, pumpkins and zuccinis are looking proper and beans are ready to climb - they just need the poles! Broad beans and peas for some reason didn't germinate very well. Well, broad beans were old seeds, more than five years, so there's that, but peas on the other hand were new AND expensive seeds! Aaaargh. I sow some carrots, and they badly need weeding - but in this weather I just can't do it - 'Suma keeps following me everywhere and if I'm on the field weeding, she'll sit right next to me and because she's a black dog that's basically lethal.

I got a pay rise (because of my EU tasks). Not much good because I've been on (good) fixed salary since our major organisation shake ten years ago, and that theoritical pay rise is still less than my current salary. I'm not complaining. I've never refused any work task and I've tried to do more than asked just because of that. I've taken tasks no-one else wants to even poke with a ten feet pole. It has it's good side but also not so good side. It's quite common to get a call from my boss (or ever from her boss) "We have no-one who knows about this, but I know you'll manage to find out everything and can do this... Please?" I wish my kids and hb would think I'm that smart and capable, too.