Easier to get up than to get down

Jeremy had to reach up and help him down. Naughty Nigel

One is my old tennis partner – she is still playing, I’m not.

Cows and trees and sheep and trees are not a good combination. Lucy and Beattie regularly eat the bark from the trees in the field and the sheep rub up against the trunks and eventually the trees die. In an attempt to save the larger specimens we have put wooden stakes and netting around the trunks and maybe we can keep some of them alive.

It is called an “asparagus beetle” and it shouldn’t cause too much harm if the numbers remain small. We will have to keep an eye on this in the spring as a heavy infestation can cause crop damage and weaken the plant and cause the spears to form a crook instead of growing straight.

We hope they will take home some veg including a patty pan.

Tea with jam tarts and zwetschgen tarts and pickled cucumbers!

Grandson and his friend. We looked in the church and discussed the Dyer monument and the English Civil War and then we looked st some of the gravestones in the church grounds. Then we set off around the Country Park where we met Estela walking the family dogs.

The boys took it in turns to take the lead of their little canine, Boo. Now we are at the play park behind the Village Hall.

And the grass is beginning to grow

There is not enough pasture for the animals and we are getting through a great deal of hay

Will there be enough hay and silage for the UK livestock this winter?

And an afternoon cuppa with an old school friend. I returned to find a wheelbarrow of cucumbers and assorted beans and a soothing sun shining over the garden.

The flowers aren’t quite as large nor the colour as deep but they are a treat at the beginning and end of summer. Thank you.