Heavy Weather

Intermittently foul weather meant a patchy days work at Norton Conyers yesterday. We managed a couple of hours cutting back and digging through the borders before a heavy shower saturated everything. Next we cleaned up the mowers by scraping the compacted grass from the cutters, I never knew fermented grass could smell so disgusting! Lunchtime brought another heavy shower when we attended a party at Gardeners Cottage where the tenants are moving on to pastures new, I always find a glass of champagne is very pleasant but not conducive to an afternoon of hard graft! However we did manage to prune the currants until home time. Consequently I didn't manage to take any photos, so instead you have one of my new Sorbus living up to its name of 'Olympic Flame', it really does light up the garden at this time of year.

"Bad weather always looks worse through a window"
Tom Lehrer