Have caught up - tried to post yesterday, but kept getting an error message.
for Bella and baby Bella
Ipanema hope you get a nearby plot soon and hello to new people.
Well done for beating the weather gods book 
Well, my area is having the hottest summer for 10 years and the dryest for 100 years.
The runner beans are really fed up with the drought and had gone on strike. A concerted watering effort got them flowering again. The new ones in the trug have just begun to set.
Tomatoes are really fabulous and look so healthy. The plants got 2 sprays of Aspirin (2 weeks apart) earlier in the season - don’t know if that has had anything to do with the results. Bottled 5.5 kilos last weekend and will have more to do soon.
I left my ruined (by flea beetles) pak choi in the ground because I reasoned that if I pulled them up, the flea beetles would transfer to other nearby brassicas. After a while I noticed that the beetles appeared to have vanished. Then I noticed that the centres of the paks were growing nice fresh leaves - so after stripping them back a bit, the new centres are usable but need to get on and pick them all before they bolt
The thing that was sent to try me.
I’ll try to cut a long story short. There appeared to have been a massive hatching of fleas outside. I don’t know if it was a weather event that got them all leaping at the same time, or what. But every time I went outside I was leapt on. I realised I was bringing them into the house on my clothes. It’s been a nightmare. Friendly feral cats and various wildlife visit the garden, and the fleas weren’t just cat fleas (in fact, mostly not cat fleas). I ended up having to put on trousers/socks/long sleeves/wellies/spray each individual time I went outside. Then when I came back in head straight for the bathroom and take all the protective kit off. Then shake it all into the shower and squirt watered down shower gel at the fleas (to break surface tension, or they just spring off the surface of the water) and rinse them all away. And yes some of them would escape.
I’ve been vacuuming and steam cleaning like a mad woman. Thank goodness the floors are tile. The nearest thing I have to carpet are bedside and bathroom mats (shake-out-of-the-windowable and washable) and a jute rug in the living area. The jute rug had salt worked into it to dry out/kill any eggs that may have been there.
I’m trying to keep this short - I could write pages
The good news is the problem is now pretty much gone. I suspect the fleas have found their favoured hosts. I can now go out in flip flops again. I do check my lower legs every so often, just to make sure one flea on left foot Thurs eve. I, of course, googled the subject and there are some horror stories. I think I got off fairly lightly.
In conclusion, you don’t need to have pets to get fleas in your home. Flea eggs are shed all over the place. They’re outside in the environment and if certain circumstances come together, they hatch and hitch a ride on you. Mild winters are giving us or me at least several pest problems and I really, really want a good cold spell this winter to redress the balance (even if it kills my little avocado tree).
The End (in hope)