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Cucumbers now getting rather mushy so we are gutting them before eating. Great improvement. So we now have lots of seeds. Given that one pays about £1 for eight of the things we shall try keeping some - without having selected an especially beautiful and splendid cucumber to breed from. A couple of questions. I got the plants from a car boot sale from a Greek (?) living in Kingston so I have no idea what variety they were. But a reasonable chance they were F1 hybrids which the seed sellers assure us don't work! And then there is the question of when does the seed know to get cracking. Cucumber seeds do not germinate easily but how do they know that the cosy interior of the mother cucumber is not the place to fire themselves up?

Also into retiring some excess books to the tip. Despite their having been in the roof, invisible and more or less forgotten for more than a year it is suprisingly hard to actually throw them away - despite it being fairly clear that one is never going to read the things again. And fairly clear that one is not going to find someone else who will. Maybe there should be something like one has in some office systems whereby unread or elderly material just falls of the end of the line into some dustbin without one having to make decisions about specific masterworks of office prose.