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I went out this morning intending to go to the big city (aka a moderate size town) but when I got down the hill I saw a huge pall of smoke. Went home but couldn't find the source online, until I saw a story in a UK newspaper about a huge fire in Spain, so I think that was it. BT - Are the radishes hotter than normal? I wonder why, I always think hot weather concentrates the flavour but you've been having a lot of wet. Val - is a ducken literally a cross? If so is it a drake/hen or cockeral/duck or can it be either? Or is it just an affectionate term?

The bad run wasn't quite over @Valkyrie. A pan fell off the hook in the wall and landed on the electric kettle which fell onto the tiled floor and smashed. Carefully swept up all the fragments of glass so that Portia (the TNN house chicken with the amputated toe) doesn't get injured during her wanderings. Ordered a new one and have a spare until it arrives. Great weather for the newly transplanted tomatoes; dull ,cool (had another fire) with occasional showers. Rain forecast until Thursday at least, which is great, but they are saying the chance of a even hotter Summer than previous records is a whopping 98%. Tasted the globe radishes; very hot.