No cataloguing this week

 Well, this week I didn't go the Athenaeum to catalogue some more of the books, instead I did something much less interesting, I spent the day in Albury for a dental checkup and my annual-ish eye test.

All good, but fairly tedious, with the eye test seeming to take forever.

Earlier on this week, before it turned stinking hot again, I managed an early morning bike ride.

Otherwise the weather's been against me. While we havn't had the forty plus days of the previous week, most afternoons have been in the mid thirties, too hot to do any serious gardening.

We had been promised rain this weekend, but in the end, all we got was a pathetic dribble. Even some of the fairly indestructible plants in the garden are  beginning to look stressed - hopefully we might get some real rain later this week.

But it's been a strange summer.

The pomegranate bush we have on the back deck has only just deigned to flower

and the ginger plants which I grow principally for their foliage (we're too far south for them to flower) have only just started producing leaves after spending most of the summer sulking in their pots.

Elsewise, I blogged about Aubrey Herbert, the Englishman who might have become King of Albania in the run up to world war one, and ruminated about the role of data storage in digital sovereignty.

Otherwise, I've basically been fiddling about and getting on with life...