Edgware and baby cucumbers

After a poor night's sleep, up to see Mum and Mas this morning, reading and writing on the trains, including Bold Move, my Dr Luana Marques. She describes how our response to anxiety can go three ways, fight, flight or freeze. People either react immediately or angrily, the deny the problem and bury themselves in everything that isn't the actually stressful thing, or they freeze in place, staying in the job or relationship or other situation that is unsatisfactory.  I have definitely frozen before, when two of personal values meet head on, such as loyalty and being true to yourself for example in a relationship.

Arranged to meet my old school friend Peter Hoibak in Brighton next week, for a drink after 40 years.  

Did some of my own writing in short burst that I was pleased with on the train. 

Met Mum and Mas in the Jolly Badger, arriving at exactly the same time as them. I chose a good meal, with lots of salad, some lean chicken and a bit rice, washed down with a glass of shandy. Mason walking very slowly with the aid of his stick, and becoming uncomfortable in his chair after a while. Mum was okay, and it was good to see her and catch up. I shall go again in two weeks. The people in the Jolly Badger kind to Mum and Mas, bringing over their usual glass of cider for mum and a glass of ice for the coke machine for Mas. They also let them slip out of the fire exit near their car too, so Mas doesn't have to walk around the building any more.

My journey home was comparatively smooth journey home. Listening to an interview on the The rest is politics: leading podcast with Kate Raworth about doughnut economics and abandoning the idea that growth must be the holy grail for economies -- and indeed is wholly unsustainable on a finite planet. 

Dan and Greg were painting some of the rooms when I arrived, which was exciting. Red in the dining room, blue in the kitchen. Lorraine planting leeks in the raised bed. 

We decided to eat out, and tried Lin's restaurant again, which does Japanese and Chinese food. It was okay for a light meal. We had a nice walk down by the sea, which was still and pale as it mirrored the cloudless sky. So lucky to be able to be so close to the sea. Although reading about the heating the Atlantic today, is alarming. 

Blow... Gorgeous green baby cucumbers in our glasshouse.