Another lovely, sunny day! There's a little east wind blowing to keep everything fresh so this is really weather-how-I-like-it
. My lovely lady gardener has just left after spending a couple if hours clipping all the shrubs that grow up the back fence into shape and order. It's a 2m high fence and the mostly thorny things that grow up it do help deter potential intruders from climbing it but, if I let everything get too rambling and scraggly, it starts intruding into the neighbour's patch so I try hard to keep it within bounds! At the moment, there are dog roses and wisteria in flower among the tangle and it's really very pretty. All the flowering things I planted out the front a few weeks ago are doing really well now, all in bloom and starting to spread out into the available space. The trouble is LK and my beautiful lavender plants ... She keeps digging around them and I've no idea why! She's never shown any interest in that exposed patch of garden before and I thought cats were supposed to avoid lavender because they dislike the smell. If she keeps this up, I'll have to find a coil of rope and try the "snake" trick on her!
OH went for a bone density scan this morning. He was referred by the GP practice who, apparently, do it as a routine thing for those of a certain age who fracture a bone - even when the cause of the fracture is obvious as in his case. We're hoping, anyway, for no unpleasant surprises when te result arrives. In the meantime, we're both spluttering with hay fever as a result of all the pollen out ther just now but, hey, it's worth it to see the sun at last.
Poor Vannin, your lower limbs are really in the wars aren't they? I hope this little spell of warm weather and the hemp oil help with the arthriticky (not sure if that's a word!) joints. This getting old thing is a b*gger but what's the alternative?