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This week I got 3 tonnes of topsoil delivered to the house so I can put it all in the veg plot. It’s steaming warm on the inside. On Friday I moved a whole tonne, and planted out the broad beans, peas and nasturtiums. This is absolute YOLO-chaos of course. You have to let it settle for a couple of weeks before you plant into it, but I don’t have a couple of weeks — I have now or I have never. Fite me, nature.
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I read a magazine called The Fence the other day and in the back it had some quick-fire questions for one of the men from Rizzle Kicks. Here are the ones I can remember — you can send me your answers if you like. A little Easter treat. I’ve added some of my own too.
- Would you ever live in Chicago?
- Aren’t people who turn off Read status on WhatsApp fundamentally a bit sinister?
- Do you fold or scrunch your toilet paper?
- If you had to be in a committed 18-month live-in relationship with one of the following former Liverpool football managers, which one would you choose:
- Rafael Benítez
- Roy Hodgson
- Kenny Dalglish
- Graeme Souness
- Roy Evans
- Brendan Rodgers
- Have you ever slapped anyone?
- Coke or Pepsi?
- Babies or toddlers?
- Who was the best Spice Girl?
- Are there too many podcasts?
- Costa, Nero, Starbucks, Pret — what’s your ranking?
- How many people do you trust enough to lend £200 to?
- How many people in your family would turn down a peerage?
- Which is the most basic Monopoly piece?
- When was the last time you blocked a toilet?
- My honest review of the copy of The Fence that I read was that it was good and I would pick it up again if I needed something to read.
- The kids were away this week up north. When they got home I asked wee man if he missed me and he said, “No! I had so much fun with all the trains and we went to Thomas Land, so I didn’t miss you.”
- He picked up his toy monkey and told me next time he sees his baby cousin he’ll share it with her, and when I asked why, he thought for a while and said, “Because everyone knows it’s really bad when babies are sad, Mum.”
- Hey, remember when I set up a book club and we read the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer and it made all my gorgeous soft lush liberal European software colleagues a bit annoyed by all the US military software analogies? Well. This week I read another 20-year-old business book — The Fifth Discipline. The audiobook is very decent but it does have actual panpipe music between the chapters. Also I kind of zoned out on the chapter about mental models because I listened to it while heaving topsoil around. And we’ve come full circle.