What I did on Monday

5.15 a.m. woke up

5:30 a.m. Sorted out overnight downloads - mainly Glastonbury related. No sign yet of Bat for Lashes set appearing, but do have Black-eyed Peas now. Started work on Helge Kragh's An Introduction to the Historiography of Science.

6:45 a.m. Trip to allotment to water polytunnel - huge weeding needed urgently! Bought papers. Read Independent.

9:10 a.m. Finish chapter 1 of Kragh (page 19). Check market opening in UK and option valuation. +£90 today so far. Listening to first Bat for Lashes cd

10:12 a.m. Finish chapter 2 of Kragh (page 31)

10:36 a.m. Finish chapter 3 of Kragh (page 40). Listening to second Bat for Lashes cd

11:12 a.m. Finish chapter 4 of Kragh. Read The Times - warning that weather later in the week could be extremely hot (for the UK). Papers still focused on Michael Jackson death - not sure why such a fuss. I thought the death of Farrah Fawcett more worthy of comment, mainly as her death is from cancer while I believe that a significant aspect of Jackson's death is self-inflicted, and therefore not so tragic

11:45 a.m. Trip to Millets Farm

12:15 p.m. Lunch - taramasalata and pitta bread. Resume reading Kragh. Listening to Blur's Midlife, a Beginner's Guide

12:45 p.m. Post arrives. One book. Nicholas Jardine's The Scenes of Inquiry: On the reality of questions in the sciences, dedicated to "freeing scientists from the mythology of science", whatever that means, which Jardine clearly considers a good thing for reasons as yet unknown.

12:50 p.m. Finish chapter 5 of Kragh (page 60)

1:15 p.m. Finish chapter 6 of Kragh (page 69). After lunch slump. 30 minutes rest (nap)

1:45 p.m. Back to work - listening to Ash Ra Tempel (to wake me up a little?)

1:52 p.m. Finish chapter 7 of Kragh (p.74) - a short chapter

2:33 p.m. Finish chapter 8 of Kragh (p.88) - a longer chapter. Listening to cd2 of the deluxe edition of The Cure's Faith album. Demos and live versions mainly, plus the excellent track Charlotte Sometimes which I bought as a 12" single when I lived at Passfield Hall in my first year at LSE in the early 1980s.

3:30 p.m. Finish chapter 9 of Kragh (page 107) - "Anachronical and Diachronical History of Science" - another long chapter and very relevant to my MSc dissertation. Preparation for some exercise.

4:30 p.m. Finish 45 minutes on racing bike in garage. Read recent Sky and Telescope magazines and listened to Tangarine Dream on ipod. Dehydration amid huge sweat production as a very hot and humid day. Shower. Start on Kragh again

4:52 p.m. Finish chapter 10 of Kragh (page 119) Overheating from exercise - have drunk 1 litre of water in the last 20 mins

5:10 p.m. Headlines on Yahoo review that Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years. I've never understood why the USA has such silly sentences

5:34 p.m. Finish chapter 11 of Kragh (p.132). Last reading of this for today. Thinking about food - when to do mine in respect of Linda's clients. Amazingly hot day

7:00 p.m 90 minutes relaxation - watching Glastonbury coverage from last night and reading press cuttings accumulated over the last couple of weeks.

7:15 p.m. Dinner - spaghetti with tomato and mascapone sauce and garlic bread. More press cutting reading, plus book on writing biographies

8:00 p.m. Linda finishes for day. Watch Glastonbury coverage and a CSI episode. More reading

10:30 p.m. To bed