Whilst the rest of the country was being pounded by strong winds and torrential rain, we fared much better at Norton Conyers. It was a dismal start to the day I'll grant you, but after a couple of hours cutting back the salvias in the shelter of the peach house, the rain dried up and we were blessed with watery sunshine. We then had fun preparing some vegetable boxes for the big house where the Grahams are expecting guests tomorrow. They like to share the produce from the garden and as we are rather proud of what we have achieved this year we wanted to make them look as nice as possible. So after a bit of scrubbing and arranging this is what we came up with, all that was missing was a rousing chorus of 'We plough the fields and scatter'!
"We thank Thee then O Father, for all things bright and good,
The seed time and the harvest, our life, our health and food"
Matthias Claudius
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