Sunday 28th April

April nearly all gone... and Spring not yet arrived?

One year, perhaps it was 2018? I can't remember, the trees were incredibly late in coming into leaf. So much so that people were beginning to ask if the trees had all died. I was travelling through the lanes every day from one school to another in beautiful sunny weather, with all the trees bare-branched as though it was W8nter.

Not so this year. The trees are all bursting into leaf, and we were driving through grey rainy weather and sharp northerly winds today. I felt very sorry indeed for the people staffing the car oark at the school where we went for our covid vaccinations this morning. Because of my lovely new Blue Badge I didn't even have to get out of the car; the nurse came to me! That's what I call service.

That took up the morning...

Where did the rest of the day go? 

I took a little toddle around my veg patch and flower border during a brief moment of sun this afternoon. 

Now, do you call them columbine (what I was taught to call them) or aquilegia like the garden centres, or granny's bonnet which is what my 90 year old neighbour,  brought up in Kent, calls them? What ever they are, the buds are showing, a promise of pink flowers any day now. 

No sewing but a little knitting, and a lot of reading filled the rest of afternoon, and the regular family zoom and also a phone call with a cousin filled the evening.

I did remember to deal with my sprouting mung beans and alfalfa beans this morning 

Those sprouts are coming along nicely.