So if we thought the week before was hot, I guess that makes this week ‘very hot’! The poor garden is wilting and so is the gardener! I’ve been out there early every morning watering, already needing sun cream on as it was hot enough to burn! As you have probably guessed, I don’t really do hot. I think most of us Brits prefer a maximum of mid-twenty degrees. When it climbs up into the thirties the country grinds to a crawl. One thing loving the heat is the strawberries, and to my absolute amazement the squirrels have completely left them alone this year. The blackbird had helped itself one…