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intoabar is open for sign-ups again and yet again I'm considering signing. Which is something I've done every year for a long time now I know, but it's such a fun concept. After my Ted Lasso binge watch, I'm tempted to use that as the main character fandom, I'd just need to decide on the other fandoms to match with. This urge to sign is also strengthened by a lovely comment I just got on one of my old bandom picfor1000 stories, which I've just reread and really enjoyed.

Things I'm watching now that I'm up to date with Ted Lasso. I've started to watch Bel Air and am enjoying it. It took a while to get into due to comparing it to The Fresh Prince, and they're two very different shows in tone. But, four episodes in I'm liking it. On spikedluv's rec I've started to watch So Help Me Todd, and that's fun, too. Though I can't binge-watch that as I'm having to download the eps. While on a night, with James, I'm watching New Amsterdam after we realised we were suddenly two seasons behind.

The mail survey has overloaded me with books lately. The latest was Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks which apparently is loved by many and seems to be about the horrors of war, however, a review on the back cover states it was 'stirringly erotic' Which seems contradictory so needing to know more, I checked out reviews online and found this review Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong is a kind of Harlequin romance with a literary slant. All the elements for pulp romance are there: "romantic" hero: soldier, refined gentleman; unhappy married woman; "romantic" locale: French suburbs, countryside; numerous, gratuitous sex scenes (I remember, horrifically, an excess of pulsating "members" and curtains of "flesh")

It's been a while since I've read about a pulsating member, I may have to put it top of my to-read list.

It's a beautiful day today, sunny and warm so I've been out in the garden again potting on the tomatoes and courgettes. The spring onions, beans, sugar snaps, sweet peas and carrots are growing beautifully and I think the lettuces are too. That or I've been carefully looking after two big weeds considering I planted loads of seeds in the trough and only two plants have come through so strong. I was sitting chilling out in the rocking chair earlier but it actually got too hot in the direct sun.

Now I just need the bags of stones that are in the car so I can finish covering the edges/borders around the paving slabs. I bought three but they're so heavy that I can only carry one at a time, even using the festival trolley. So the other two bags have been travelling back and forward to Newcastle for the last three days.