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It’s wonderfully warm here just now. In between all the cycling, walking, climbing and meeting badgers in the woods were loving the cool of the pool and reading in the sun 
Fiction being perused: Mariana, a gentle tale of reincarnation and time slipping and the latest Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White – very impressed with this author’s progression. Non fiction-wise: The Moneyless Man, a guy who lived without money for a year (and continues to do so – see his blog), quite mind blowing, lots of info about the financial system as he was an economist and The Age of Absurdity, a great antidote to, well, total nonsense and status quo worship and it’s very funny too!
Jodie Picoult’s House Rules is also well worth a mention, though I read it a while back, as the main character has aspergers syndrome. He may have been given almost every trait going but he does come over as an authentic aspergian person and Picoult makes so many good points and references much current research, I feel it’s a valuable title to have in the mainstream.
borage
grapes
toms
red peppers, just watered
parsley, getting ready to self seed
melon
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as 
a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
If I didn’t like you so much I’d hate you! First you tempt me with lots of chocolatey goodness when I’m trying to lose weight and then you show me a book that I really fancy when, only yesterday, I decided I really couldn’t afford to buy any more books for ages! Mind you, this one (Marianne) can be got quite cheap, secondhand, on Amazon… Swither… Grrrr….. Swither…
if you haven’t bought it yet, I’m happy to send it to you after Charlotte’s finished with it
you’d have to email me your address – lucy@veganfamily.co.uk
That would be great! Thanks! I’m e-mailing you now…
How come grapes are growing in Scotland?? It’s meant to be cold up there…how have you done it??
Speaking of summer reading, I just brought a fiction book called “planet cannibal” about a planet where people eat each other (bringing home the reality of animal eating). Have you read it?
in a greenhouse – got the (enormous) vine on freecycle from a person nearby
no, not heard of planet cannibal before.