Will Bob lose weight?

Monday 23rd. April 2007 23.57
I recently enjoyed the best meal I have eaten for a long time, cooked in ten minutes and eaten by myself so there was nobody either to yoink the best bits or to spoil the meal with unwanted chatter. I had been given some asparagus cut from the asparagus bed of one of the allotments close to mine (by the owner). It took ten minutes to steam and was eaten with parma ham and butter. I feel sometimes that if you can eat such a delicious meal at home, so easy to prepare, why would one ever want to go out to eat? Of course one must have a source of fresh asparagus, so I am now determined to lay down an asparagus bed as soon as the digging has been completed. I have noticed that the asparagus in Tesco's comes from Peru and the pak choi from Morocco which doesn't say much for their green credentials!
The allotment has been rather time consuming lately as it has been a struggle to get enough ground prepared to plant out all the seedlings growing in pots in the kitchen and all the plants offered by my generous allotment neighbours. I must now make the space for another row of climbing French beans and for more runners. With the help from a gardener from Liverpool I put in a 3/4 row of mixed beans on Saturday and I'm pleased to report that they are all looking extremely healthy,(I counted them and quite by chance there were 39), as are the sweetcorn planted the same day. Luckily it has rained here steadily all day though not hard enough to stop further digging. If my sleeping partner awakes for long enough to read this, he might bring along the promised canes for the second row of beans. We must also make space for a row of peas and for tomatoes which are mixed varieties in large numbers.
Since the four rows of raspberries went in, there has also been a row of shallots, arow of artichokes which come from off-shoots and look rather sickly, though I am assured they will survive, a row of garlic and two rows of potatoes which were mentioned earlier. The potatoes are already beginning to shoot up and will soon need earthing up.
Of course this is all to do with food production and consumption and not much to do with losing weight, though the digging may help in that respect. Its weigh day on Wednesday, if I remember. There hasn't been enough time in the day for eating, sleeping, reading , digging and work and unfortunately its the reading which has suffered. I must put this right and cut down on work and sleep. After the death of Zen's creator there will obviously be no new ones to enjoy. I wonder if he will become a classic and be re-read in years to come? I still reread quite a lot of detective fiction so to celebrate my favourite detectives I offer the following:-
221b Sherlock Holmes
222. Maigret
223. Montalbano
224. Carvalho
225. Brunetti
226. Louie Knight
227. Wallander
228. Rhodenbarr
229. Ramotswe
230. Spenser
There may be another collection at a later date as I found it difficult to choose between several candidates for the last place. Don't bother to let me know that Sherlock Holmes got in an earlier list.