The (imaginatively named) Mall, Maidstone

Although hot today, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be! Cycled into town to a meeting with a blipper who happened to have a considerable amount of experience around the prison work I'm involved in. Small world. Sat inside an air-conditioned coffee bar that was almost too cold, then cycled home.

It was a lazy sort of afternoon, went to the local garden centre for yet more supplies for the pond; plant baskets, aquatic soil and grit then spent a couple of hours under the umbrella with a large glass of limejuice cordial followed by a cup of tea. New potatoes (and other things of course) for tea then out for an evening walk around Mote Park.