Mini supp
can't keep away
Good morning and welcome to day 786 of summer. The grass in the garden looks like an old doormat. It would be so, so nice to have a couple of days’ respite, and by respite I mean torrential rain. Except the ground is so rock hard that the rain will just ping off and then we’ll have flooding. Also I'm really noticing how much earlier the light is fading in the evenings.
Today’s miniature supplement is for paid subscribers - a few things that are in my head, with no theme and in no order because I wasn’t actually planning to post this weekend. (This implies there’s normally a theme and an order, I realise, which is a lie).
This becomes a paid post in a sec. The most recent free one like this is last week’s epic, here. All my other round-up posts are here.
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