Now the garden's sorted

 My gardener came back to day to finish off with cutting the lawn(s), and also cut back all the undergrowth behind the greenhouse, so I can go in there and get roots out tomorrow, weather permitting.  I shall have to pay him a chunk, around £70, as he's been here 7 or 8 hours all told.

The orchard was done a couple of days back.  He is careful to cut round my wild flowers (mostly Comfrey in the foreground).

Behind the greenhouse.  A wild Tutsan growing by the beam.  I can see my Clematis has survived, despite lack of light, and neglect.  I gave it a good feed with Clematis food, and then did all the other ones too.  They need doing every 3 months.

The lawn wasn't too bad here, as he cut it right back about 3 weeks ago.

Bright sunlight on the patch left for the Fox and Cubs to bloom.

The long border, with lots of different Hardy Geraniums.  I spent half the afternoon dead heading roses, pulling out grass and weeds, and cutting back the Aquilegias before they seed everywhere.  I have enough now, but I have left the blue and white one (related to the dark William Guinness I have all over the place).  I shall save seed from that one and put some blue and white thread on the stem to remind me which one it is.

I spent a couple of hours this morning removing varnish from a box I had bought for £2, just to be a stand for china etc on my stall.  I used Meths and 0000 grade wire wool.  It was scratched and crappy looking before.  Inspired, I went back to the Pudding Basin stool and gave the seat a good wipe down with the same.  Hah.  Rather than remove it, I ended up with a gleaming seat, so think perhaps rather than ancient varnish it's polyurethene.  Ah well, looks tidy anyway and is ready to go and have an outing on Saturday.

Now I'm feeling really quite tired.  I have made a start on the Intuitive Daily Stitching, having pressed the French linen and drawn out lines across it 3" apart, and today added ones down.  I have embroidered 4 of the lines across.  Now I will do some of the down lines and see how it looks before starting on the designs.  In case you are interested, this is the link to her You Tube channel, and all the instructions.

I'm half way through another Kate Ellis book, The Bone Garden, which I got from the Library.   Very good.

Oh, and some VERY GOOD NEWS about Rosie, who is now running about like there was never a problem, and sleeping MUCH better at night now she is no longer in constant pain.  Her latest interest is Pirates, so I have ordered her a Pirate Book from you know where, as a little treat.