The garden is loving the rain but the peonies are getting a battering. Spotted a young rabbit last night far too close to my flowers for my liking. 🌱

Good morning 🌱

Much needed, the garden is happier and the canal is getting a top up. 🌱

One sock done! Now to knit the second. 🧶 Much more successful than my attempt at making goat’s cheese today. My milk wouldn’t split. Any ideas about what to do with nearly a litre of sour scalded goat’s milk? 🤔

Happy weekend! 🌱 #BloomScrolling

Good morning! #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling 🌱

A few photos from my recent trip to #Leeds #UKCanals

Good morning flower 🌺 🌱

Very pretty Philadelphus flowers. 🌱

More sock 🧶

Alliums 🌱 #Bloomscrolling

A few pics of the garden from Saturday morning 🌱

Bearded iris are out!!! 🤸🏽🤸‍♀️ #Bloomscrolling #GardensHour #flowers

More knitting 🧶

Latest fancy sock progress. This pattern takes a bit of concentration 🧶

Morning all. Things are heating up in the garden. Red hot poker 🌱

Dinner was hard work but delicioso 😋 Mediterranean roast veggies with halloumi and pan fried mushrooms and garlicky green beans with a cannellini bean and cream cheese sauce.

The complicated sock is progressing 🧶

Drought fears in central/southern England, dry April leaves rivers low. 1trn+ litres of water a year lost to leaky pipes, 41.4trn litres since privatisation. Companies paid £85bn+ in dividends. Sewage in rivers. No national grid for water. Investment neglected. People fleeced. Nationalise water.

Lupins 😍🌱

Car sock has made great progress since casting on Saturday afternoon. I must go back to more complicated sock instead. 🧶

There was definitely a frost this morning. So very glad that we were serious in preparing for it. 🌱

Oriental poppy on its way to flowering 🌱

Meet a meerkat, I was that interesting unless I had food for them. Quite cute but beware they have sharp teeth and very long claws.

Met some cute critters yesterday 😊

I hate my partner’s driving so I have finally found a solution to take my mind off things. Knit! This is a there and back mostly along the M25 to visit my parents. Cast on as I was leaving. Almost time to start the heel flap which will be in the same colour as the cuff 🧶

New socks started 🧶

Finished those socks! 🧶

Lupins 😍🌱

Keep Britain Kind

Baskets are up! 🌱

More sock progress, finally started the toe decreases. 🧶

Quite pleased with tonight’s dinner effort, a lamb and aubergine curry and a palak dal. These are the leftovers. A quick meal later in the week.

Lots of gardening over the weekend. Very stiff now and knees sore. 🌱

There has been gardening 🌱

There will be lupins very soon. 🌱

The hanging baskets are currently hanging out in a sheltered corner but I am thinking of putting them up if I can make them some frost protection jackets. 🌱

Baby gooseberries. Hoping for a decent crop. 🌱

The rather monumental locks at Knowle, the remnants of the original Warwick & Birmingham Canal narrow locks sitting alongside wide locks built 1930s, just after the canal amalgamated with others to form the Grand Union. #boatlife #ukcanals #canal #narrowboat #KeepCanalsAlive #FundBritainsWaterways

Good morning 🌱

Another garden view from yesterday morning. The poles will have sweet peas and morning glory. Currently have the morning glory under cover due to frost. 🌱

A photo of the garden taken this morning. 🌱

Toes are fiddly 🧶

More sock progress, toes started. 🧶

Yep, I bought more plants 🪴🌱 had a lovely afternoon gardening and have already used another 100 litres of compost.

A few garden pics to start the weekend 🌱

Sock progress 🧶 I have actually completed the heel turn now and picked up stitches. Halfway through the gusset decreases. Will post a new pic soon.

Good morning 🌱

Not proper bluebells but in my garden and very cheering 🌱

New sock started 🧶