The First Week of August

 There's a very strange old woman staring back at me from my new bus pass card which arrived in the post this week. ED helped me with getting it when she was here last month as I kept getting stuck moving photos from one place to the online form.  It won't get much use while I can still drive, we only have a couple of buses each day passing through the village. They go to all the wrong places and take three times as long as driving and I don't really enjoy bus travel anyway - did years of it in the past-  but it might be handy sometime.

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I'd been waiting for this pepper to turn red. It's from the plant  bought from a boot sale when my own plants were so slow to get going.

Shouldn't have waited because when I sliced into it some of the inside had gone black. No idea why - but I'll blame the weather. A little was usable and went into a quiche.

I'll bring  in two others that are not quite red later today and chop them for the freezer, if they are OK inside.

My four home grown pepper plants have a few peppers on them but they're still green.

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The rain that was forecast for Mid Suffolk for the 13th has disappeared from the weather charts, now there's nothing until perhaps the 17th and the long range forecast says above average temps and below average rainfall right through until September.   With the constant heat I seem to have sunk into weeks of achieving nothing much..................and I don't know how I'm going to get out of the slump- it's very worrying and feels like depression creeping in. 

All I've been doing is reading, doing all sorts of different puzzles in my puzzle books, going to exercise group, occasional bits of food prep in the kitchen  and shopping and too much TV again for company. 

I decided......had to force myself............. to go out yesterday to Pot Fest - a celebration of potters, sculptors  and their work. I went last year and enjoyed looking at all the creations. It was very hot and dusty there so I didn't stay long - photos next week.

Grass on the park was  dry as dust

Hope you have a good weekend, there doesn't seem to be anything interesting to go to so it will be just the boot sales  for me again then.