Since lockdown we have celebrated two of the three annual foot festivals at The Gables, Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost). Will we still be here for the third in October? We know not. Nature is not bothered by our problems with a virus. The hen and her eleven chicks are thriving.

The pots of sweet peas that Jeremy carefully sows each year are flowering and the scent is heavenly

The kid goats, born just before Passover, are sturdy and strong

In the centre of the lupin cups tiny droplets of water shimmer like diamonds

In the pergola the Poundland lilies are flowering