Beside The Thames.This year's broad beans took ages to set, but now that they have I realise that they have been conspicuously successful. I planted the seedlings in an unusually richly composted bed which may account for their strength and height. The are now nearly six foot, twice as high as usual. I have not, as in previous years, cut off the top growing-points to deter black fly which are supposed to be drawn to the tender leaves, and still there are no black fly. I have staked the outside of the four long rows and held them upright with garden string, which make the sturdy plants look a little like strange animals eager to escape from a pen. And there are plump and promising pods protruding in all directions.
As it has rained most of the day I have with the help of Windows Clean Up been purging my computer's hard disk of surplus programs. It is a bit like sorting out the contents of old drawers and tidying up shelves. I lean back in my chair with a sigh of accomplishment.
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My IMac needs a clean out. Now I feel so
guilty..... but I'll get over it.
On a rainy day a hundred years ago a little bit of embroidery might have been on the cards (though not by men; which raises the question what did men do then?). Windows Clean-up seems an appropriate and harmless substitute. I bought WCU but never used it. Install/Remove Software, to be found in Windows Control Panel, seemed to do the job except with very old programmes.
I like a nice defrag myself.
I think perhaps men sharpened pencils or discussed and swapped natural history specimens like Farebrother and Lydgate do in Middlemarch.
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