After being woken up by the cricket which moved into my house several days ago and is now in my gallery I heard strange clicking noise coming from behind the stove. I thought it must be the cricket trying to leave as I had the door open.

However as I peered into the dark and rather dirty space behind the pellet stove all I could see were two large black beetles entwined.

They had split up by the time I found a jar to catch them.

I managed to get one , but the other one scuttled off under the stove. Its mate was dropped in among the mint in my garden.

Wasn’t sure if I would post this photo …..not cleaned in behind the stove since ….er whenever.

I was inspired to get the hoover out from its hiding place and cleaned all round the stove. I may or may not have hoovered up the beetle ……

But I did vacuum the whole of the house….more or less. Felt good!

Last night was the night of the big concert with celebrity singers.

I went along just to take a photo . The singers walked right past me as I leaned on the wall, but I didn’t realise till afterwards .

I was thinking how nice it would be to have a quiet night in when I realised that the Sputnik festival begins tonight. And there are 3 bands, beginning at 22.00.

There is also something called Hells Party happening somewhere. I have an invite. …..

My new art book arrived yesterday. I’m not sure if I like it….but it’s a good one to read bits of at 6am with a coffee.

Today has mostly been housekeeping and watching useful or inspiring videos

I watched a documentary about Beatrix Potter which was interesting but I would have liked to wind up the presenter to make her go a bit faster.

And I caught up on my work diary.

Maybe I’ll sit outside and listen to the music tonight.

But for now wine and taralli are just what I’d like.

Cheers🍷🍷