Noisy glass.

Firstly, what is this bug?
The photo is the best I could get on my Phone, it stayed there for a while, then flew off elsewhere in the greenhouse. Looked to me like a cross between a wasp and a beetle, very handsome in black and yellow.

Late up this morning after planting out about three hundred onion sets last night. My back was really sore after that little lot, balancing on a plank and planting each side of it to do two rows for each traverse of the plot. Booked my £40 trailer load of horse doings in chopped hemp over breakfast.
Started Slicen-dice up in the shed and reversed him out before shutting down to check: gearbox oil, engine oil, oilbath air filter and petrol tank. Then off we went to rotovate all of plot 18, bar the Herb patch.
Poor Slicen-dice had a little mishap, after doing the well weathered half we were just setting about the lumpier half and his drive belt gave up the ghost with the rubber and cloth de-laminating.
Back home to get the spare and a selection of spanners. Happily the Howard 350 is fairly civilised when it comes to a drive belt change; remove the belt guard,unscrew the L bolt holding the clutch assembly in place, swing the clutch away, remove the old belt, loosen off the pusher bolt, undo the four nuts under the main frame which hold the plate the engine is bolted to, slide the engine back on its plate, install the new belt. put the clutch back, screw in the L bolt, slide the engine forward, half tighten the four nuts, use the pusher bold to push the engine forward until the belt tension is correct, do up the four engine plate nuts and replaces the belt guard.
Finished first pass, interesting on the big clods, keeps working at some novel angles does Slicen-dice.
Pulled the depth guide up a couple of notches and did a second pass, the engine note clearly tells how hard he is working, fast and gunny the blades are skimming or in very loose stuff, slower and deeper the blades are well in and digging hard.
Cleaned Slicen-dice and took him home into the shed, must order a new spare belt as without a belt he is immovable unless a tow team are roped up.
Returned to the plot and contemplated it for about twenty minutes, then weeded the herb patch, added several bags of shredded tree mulch, then it started raining.

So I took shelter in the greenhouse and over the next few hours potted myself out of pots. Tomatoes, Peppers, Curly Kale, Calabrese, Brussels Sprouts, Peas and Sweetcorn.

The bed is covered with trays of pots, the growbag house is in and full of the Tomatoes, Peppers, Sweetcorn and Squashes.

As an experiment I have planted out nine mangetout peas in the bit of bed just by the door, hope to get some very early sugar-snaps.
From the back we have, two pots of Squash in the propagator, some rampant Peas, various Onions, some insignificant looking Savoy cabbage, an old fashioned seed pan of Onions, the remainder of the Curly Kale and my Pigletwillie Banana Shallots.

Plan for the rest of the weekend:

Saturday 10;30, accept delivery of huge pile of shit.
Distribute in wheelbarrow loads on plot 18, by teenager.

Dig rest of fruit terrace, by me, with delivery of manure as needed by teenager.

Get more 3" pots, lots of them.

Get more potting compost.

Pot up more stuff in the greenhouse, especially the shallots.

Plant out the rampant Peas, with pigeon protection.
Move Dad's apple storage rack from the greenhouse into a shed.

See how it goes.......