Mele

The temps held up. A quick trip into super-busy Poppi weekly market for fish and bread. Home to make a squid and tomato passata pasta. Siesta. Water to the garden. A light tea after a zoom with the Star of Kerry. Bit of catch up tv. The heat doesn’t want to let go. The night full of crickets calling.

A case of Covid in Poppi - a returning Albanian. Talk in papers of testing all returning travellers. Health and tracking teams on high alert. It’s easy to forget the basics. Non abbassiamo la guardia. Don’t let your guard down.

A 10 day stretch on my own looming. I’d love to come home but home is also here. Is there not a Covid risk appraisal app you can knock numbers into to get a gauntlet- running readout?

On a brighter note the apples are looking so much better this year after my pruning and fruit selection efforts.