I lifted seven slabs today, and mattocked the stuff underneath. Not much clay under the sand to mix in with the last of the mushroom compost, but a lot of flints, and red clay, which is the colour of the geology. It wasn't enough to make it worth while to bring it up further. I added three bags of good topsoil, which didn't bring the bed quite up to the height I wanted, but that can be done later. Then I planted out a number of different lettuces from the supermarket, intended to be used on the kitchen windowsill. It will be interesting to see how well this works. They don't look much different from the ones I bought to plant out before. A good buy for 90p.

That had me sweating, so I had a bath and a lie down. Then I packaged the soup I had made with salad trimmings for the freezer, and cooked up the curds from turned milk into an Indian sweet. Salad for supper. I'm going to have to eat stuff out of the freezer for a while, as I have it completely full.

I have a pattern for the shape of my top, but because the trouser legs are going to provide front and back it's going to be done differently. The instructions do make sense if done their way, with the fronts pushed through the shoulders and out at the side. It'll work my way as well.

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