How hot is it today? The front garden is like the Sahara at the moment and we’ve been meaning to weed it of late but the soil is like concrete and the last time we spent a lot of time working out there was in lockdown. We cleared ten or so years of ivy off the front wall, then a couple of weeks later parts of the wall fell down. The ivy was keeping the thing up!

We put in a hollyhock last year, the main stem fell over with the mad wind early this year, then spikes grew out of the main stem on the ground and from the centre part a bush has formed. We’re not complaining as it’s covering the broken down wall and the flowers are attracting all sorts of bugs, pollinating insects and bees.

In this silly heat, do remember to give your garden a good water in the morning if possible and take it nice and easy, the garden will thank you for it!

As for cooling down sakes we’d recommend this excellent mix from Chris Coco, one to have on when all the windows and doors are open and there’s damp sheets hanging down from the ceiling (saw that on the internet) to help keep everyone cold what with the crazy heat today.

And Chris has very kindly put up the track listings too:
1 Calm – Long Summer Dream (Dub Mix) x Tangerine Dream – Love On A Real Train
2 Turbotito – To Feel In Love (Projections x Turbotito Version) x Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking
3 SONLIFE – The First (Chris Coco Version x SONLIFE – She Misses You
4 Blair French – Honey Rooftops (Chris Coco Version Part 1) x Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun
5 Sauco – Sun Goddess (Chris Coco Sunset Mix) x Scott Grooves – E2E4 Reframe
6 Hear & Now x Chris Coco – For You (The Chill Out Tent Edit) x Hear & Now – Aurora Baleare
7 Reggae Disco Rockers – The Whistle Song (Quiet Storm Version) x King Tubby – A Better Version
8 Quinn Lamont Luke – Don’t Run Away (Chris Coco Version) x Mr Fingers – Can You Feel It
9 Projections – Original Cell (Chris Coco Version) x Thomas Newman – American Beauty
10 Dexter Scott – Break Noise x The Pop Group (Dennis Bovell Dub)
11 Coyote – Home Grown x Gregory Isaacs – Cool Down The Dub
12 Joan Bibiloni – Castanets Eivissa / Mar Blava