Eurovision

We have had a lot of company and a really fun night/weekend with friends dressed in this year's theme-bling and crowns to represent all the countries in the Eurovision Contest. Where do people get all their imaginative ideas from? and their skill? We mopped up the party with a barbecue and garden games- and so much food , drink and laughter in hot sunshine. The house was returned to normal eventually, flags down, barbecue away, beds stripped and quiet resumed. The paintwork is not in such good fettle having been pulled off or still adorned with Blutac but we intend to paint anyway- there again maybe a touch-up job will have to suffice!

I have read Joanna Trollope's 'Second Honeymoon' and Anne O'Brien's 'Virgin Queen'; both made good reading- the latter being really interesting- the story of Anne Neville who harked from Middleham in N Yorkshire.

Cast not a clout till May is out..... well the month of May is out, past and gone; the may (hawthorn) blossom is in flower painting the hedgerows white; so- vests off........ But since then the weather has changed dramatically-it has caused havoc at Chelsea Flower Show- and in my garden!(no comparison, I realise!) the monsoonlike conditions and chill mean I haven't been able to get out there so the weeds have been taking over.

Aubretia is past ; ceanothus and weigela are in flower; small yellow and orange welsh poppies are dotted all over the rather 'natural' looking, overgrown borders. But everything is out at different times to previous years.