Below the bees at buzzing in snd out of the white hebe flowers

More honey spinning this evening

Forty more jars. This year we will be selling honey and eating it too!

A friend sent me a postcard last week. She saw it an exhibition and remembered my involvement, over 40 years ago, with CND – the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

I was baking this morning and the juxtaposition of the cooking and the card reminded me that if only our leaders (so called) had listened to the anti- nuclear protesters then the world would not be living under this horrific existential threat.

We used to rattle the chain link fence at Greenham Common and shout at the soldiers, “Take the toys from the boys!” That includes all military weapons. I know it’s pie in the sky to believe that might ever happen. It’s getting worse and worse …

Picking them is painful (too many thorns on the branches) and it’s difficult to find them in any shops these days.

When I was a child the local greengrocer shops sold gooseberries, blackcurrants, red currants and greengages. Nowadays I rarely see these fruits in the shops snd if they are available the price is exorbitant. Blackcurrants are £16 a kilo if you can find them !

Out in the field Yardie is still grieving the loss of her lamb and all the other sheep are peacefully grazing

If only the outside world could be at peace and would that I could comfort Yardie. Her lamb has gone to a lovely home, truly

One of the mothers, Yardie, is grieving this evening. So sad.