We are looking after a friend’s place in the country and perhaps the hardest work is keeping on top of the vegetable garden. Ignore it for a day, and there are five large cucumbers, mocking you. My cucumber repertoire is somewhat limited; raita, quick pickle, sandwiches and, when I remember, Yan-Kit...

It turns out Kraft Dinner is tasty.

Who knew.

I too have never knowingly eaten Kraft Dinner, but I can say that the whole world knew, because that's what industrial food does, and does it well. Homemade mac and cheese is even tastier, usually, but more work.

But Peter Rukavina's point is...

We are very fortunate to be staying at a friend’s place in the country, where the most onerous duty is not taking care of the cat — the ostensible reason for us being here — but keeping on top of the vegetable garden, and in particular the zucchini and cucumbers.

As we head off for a couple of weeks away from home, catsitting for a dear friend, I thought I would get a jump on my usual tardiness and try to get my laptop in order and fully functional. As this would also be the first time using this laptop to do a bit of coding — at least that’s the plan — I also had to install all that stuff. Luckily, I had made a note of Chris Amico’s guide which, along with the bits I have learned about environments, made the whole thing a lot less stressful than it might have been.

Appalling. Over halfway through this month before summarising last month, and I was sorely tempted to just abandon a report for May.¹ I know what that would do to me, eventually. In any case, I have excuses, two week-long trips, one in May, and one the first week in June.