Garden notes 2

Everything is very slow in the garden this year as it has been so cold. A friend and I went to “Baskets and Blooms” at the end of April and bought plants. I got a saxifrage, a forsythia and some bedding plants. The saxifrage was put in almost immediately. The forsythia went in quite quickly…

Steps out of lockdown – 3

It seems I can now go to visit people in their houses and give hugs – but I haven’t done either, yet. Also allowed to meet 30 people outside – not done that either. The Coffee Shop has opened again – though for limited hours – and I am volunteering there on a Wednesday. I…

On one walk….

A friend and I were going for a walk, down to the Nadder. We saw: what we think was an egret and as we watched it it caught a fish; two swans come in to land on the river, then three more came in next to them and finally, after they had waited a bit,…