Good morning to you all and hopefully your day and week will be gloriously delightful. We’ve had a week which has been just marginally on the right side of tolerable, I suppose. It’s been colder, greyer and breezier than last week with the wind from the northeast rather than from the Saharan sands of last week. Having said that, yesterday was very pleasant and today looks like it could similarly be grand. I feel another Sunday bike ride coming.
Unfortunately from the gardeners’ perspective, the April showers have yet to materialise. Ms Playchute planted my broad beans and a couple of other things in the raised beds this week and now needs some precipitation to help them all get started. Wouldn’t it be handy if it rained at night and was gloriously sunny during the day? Continue reading “17 April 2011”