They are definitely in a bad state. It looks like blight, and although it’s not my fault as such, the planting out would not have helped matters. Certainly the rain didn’t. And having the plants becoming very bushy and watering from above…well, could I have made any more errors ?! Got a bit upset yesterday at the allotment as J said she has blight too, and that it might be airborne, and now I feel everyone on the allotment is going to blame me. And then I couldn’t get back up from taking a closer look at the fennel – dodgy hip – and got scared that I’d end up spending the night at an allotment that I was coming close to hating. I’ve dug up some of the worst affected plants (putting them in a rubbish bag) but the whole lot may need to go. After all that, the most successful tomatoes have been the Tumbler variety, grown outside my kitchen window in a hanging basket. They taste lovely, even to a tomato-hater.
Visited the new Waterstones in Lakeside today and saw a sorry sight.* There was a man sitting at a table, surrounded by books, but no people. It seems he may have been an author doing a book signing. But no-one was wanting a book. And then, when I saw a poster advertising the titles, I thought I knew why. What a rip-off of Lemony Snickett ! The books look just like the Series of Unfortunate Events. Compare this to these and be glad you didn’t have to read the blurb too.
*Why a sorry sight ? I thought about it and realised this guy has got his stories published AND his publishers are happy to support him on a book signing. Loads of people are probably really jealous of him. Maybe Lakeside just wasn’t ready for a book signing.
