I’m going to post about the garden to start with. It’s a nice calm place to start.
We bought sausage baguettes from the Co-op on Wilford Lane and ate them as we watched the geese fly over on their daily trip to the river. It’s an extravagance but it’s nice to eat out once in a while, and it’s hardly Babylonian in its excess.
There was a robin, a crow, a few pigeons, some magpies and a flight of about a dozen long-tailed tits. You’s think I’d manage some decent photos but I had the small camera and it was set for close-ups. By the time I’d adjusted it I normally found I was zooming in on an empty branch.
The flowers were less flighty and I even got a couple of wildlife shots, though bees and caterpillars aren’t the hardest of subjects.
Caterpillar and flower. My flimsy knowledge of plants and wildlife is revealed for all to see.
Safer ground here – it’s a bee and a nasturtium
Imagine my mind like an over-full bookcase. As you force a volume of coin knowledge in at one end a book of insect knowledge falls off the other end.
Eventually the Council House clock struck nine and I had to leave for work. I may cover the events of the day later – breaking a grandmother’s heart, talking to a lunatic and cynically laying a trap for a potential young collector.
Those, of course, are just the highlights.
Runner Beans – guess what’s for tea
In Victorian times they were grown for their decorative flowers rather than the beans. You have to wonder who first decided to taste them.