The flowers are flooding out
Waterfall of flowers
Good scent too
Star supervising the garden from under the Ginko tree
Swelling apples
Courgette flower buds
Peas ready for eating
A sea of pinks
The first Lilly of the summer
We've got a lot of naturalised foxgloves coming up everywhere
The tomatoes are tied up and growing fast.
Blackcurrants need eating
Home-made scratch stock and the first results
The latest stage on the bathroom cupboard is to add some beading to some edges to match an original cupboard elsewhere in the house. I’ve made a “scratch stock” from an old saw blade, polished up, filed and held in a couple of bits of oak. It works amazingly well – much faster than I expected and produces a good finish. This is a photo after a few cuts on one of the cross-members.
We’ve just got a couple of urns; terracotta, a bit bashed but rather nice. Had to repair one of them – needed a new spike fitted to the bowl.
Urn with red and gold flowers
Urn with purple flowers
Also visible are the wires holding up the tayberry which has gone wild this year. Hopefully we’ll get some fruit off it.
Blackcurrant buds
Camelia - one of my favourites
Apple flower buds
The weather throughout April has been lovely – dry and sunny.
Duck nest in the reeds
Proud duck and her ducklings
Geese asleep
Shaking a leg after waking up
All the geese were doing these stretches. Looks bizarre. A few days later they chased me off the canal towpath when I was out for a jog. I’ve just seen them out with goslings – very cute.
Bluebell mist on the forest floor
Heron in the River Ribble
