How I feel now

One snail

Of substance

Heavy load

Many obstacles

Long road

Slow progress

Stops

Pulls in head

In the garden at the moment

OH WISTERIA

He stole it, MY PRECIOUS SWING SEAT

B, who never sets foot in the garden, now says he LOVES working in the garden

Develops muscles, gets a tan, pleases mother, gets paid...win win win win

Faux copper lantern customised from Carrefour's cheapest, Narnia-style for Enchanted Garden

What happens when one  electric socket, one light and a water tap are fitted...the rest still not finished (gravel parking area, path, the other socket, the other lights...)

Garden moments

Wherever I go, curious cat follows and rubs round my legs

Purposeful stride in my direction...

Lump of walnut tree, brazening it out with daisies 

The dear honeysuckle is making such a good job of screening

Two coloured purple lady's bonnet

Planted as a tiny baby, the rosemary has become a raging fire, despite the fact that I regularly hack branches of it to eat, dry, make herbal tea, and allow other plants some space

Palest pink lady's bonnet

Red lady's bonnet, new this year, don't know how it arrived

I've a soft spot for Herb Robert

Old Japanese ball plant (Spiraea cantoniensis - Kodemari)

Happy Easter at 3.33pm

R wanted us to do the Easter Egg hunt again this year,  even though he is 13 and B is at his girlfriend's house.  So we did it, JC, R, Lemon and I, and we had fun.

R and JC set off on the Easter Egg hunt

R having arrived for the hunt by sliding down banister

Lemon joins us

Each owl has an egg

My best disguise, can you spot the white egg?

Here you can see my painted logs, they are sections of executed nut tree, the execution ordered by our neighbour, my attempt symbolise a flowering from the death of the old, a renewal of life.

Cheeks stuffed already...

Seven petalled clematis

Lemon enjoys trampling on feet, here she is caught in the act

Periwinkle stars shine upon Easter

Strawberries and raspberries in grow-bags, and a posher pot with summer bulbs

JC points at our fig tree and remembers how Christ condemned a fig tree just before the crucifixion...

Our fig tree was condemned, to an agonising over-pruning not of my doing,  but look how it resurrects by growing new branches from its severed trunk...

Mixed canopy

The reward, a basket of eggs...

JC returns to hsi beloved study