April has been a complete blur, it’s going so quickly.
On Saturday I took Mum for an alfresco lunch at our favourite tearoom and garden centre.
They’ve worked so hard to make it look nice for everyone.
It was good to be there. It felt like being on holiday.
The sun came out so we had no need for big coats and blankets, although I
did have woolly tights on and a thermal vest on under my wool dress.
Our friend Jane joined us and we had a nice catch up and bought plants, cakes and
some of their new artisan bread. I went for the tomato sourdough.
Philip enjoyed it with a cheese ploughman’s for his tea.
I got talking to this chap, Kevin Rothwell, while he was waiting for his wife.
What a character, he’s a bit of a celebrity in that he has helped to raise over a million
pounds for charity.
The oldest man to attempt to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Back home the wandering welder wasn’t happy when I unwittingly opened
a bottle of 20 year old port that his late friend Pete bought him from
Greece many years ago. How was I to know he was saving it.
I thought it was a bottle of red wine that would go nicely with his ploughman’s.
Sunday was spent in the garden working on removing the ivy
and exposing the dry stone wall again.
The Camellia has joined the garden party. It’s always lovely even
though the flowers fall off once they get big.
The grape hyacinths are doing well in the old Belfast sink.
And finally the new manhole cover has got a cover.
Even though the welder said it was perfectly safe to walk on
I didn’t like the fact that it bounced when you walked on it
so I said you’ll have to make a cover for the cover before I’ll
be stepping on it.
More gardening tales to follow and hopefully I’ll be back in the good books.
Stay safe and enjoy the sunshine
Lynn
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