Thank you!

Thank you LJ friends, Tweeters and a nice lady from Sky. They're sending me a replacement remote without any fuss at all. Coincidence? Or just the right person dealing with the issue? Who knows; I hope it solves my problem.

At the nursery sale

How I wish I’d taken my camera with me when I went to the nursery sale first thing this morning! I’d love to show you the crowds of happy shoppers with their ridiculously laden trolleys. The garden centre holds these sales several times during the summer and there are great bargains to be had. It’s a funny thing, but whenever I pay £10.00 for a plant, it dies, but anything snapped up for a pound or two at these sales flourishes. I came back from the last sale feeling very disgruntled. I picked a trolley which I couldn’t manage, the plants were arranged so that it was hard for people to get round and bargain hunters were pushing and shoving quite rudely. Humph!

Today was much better. There was the usual snaking queue, just like a jumble sale, and people chatting in a friendly way to complete strangers (well, I was). This time they’d used a different area of the nursery so the plants were on benches in a great circle, easy for people to filter past. I bought: Astrantia ‘Buckland’; Thalictrum ‘Evening Star'; a dark pink dahlia for late colour. All for £8.00. Win! It’s quite a social event for me as I have so many horticultural friends and acquaintances, I’m sure to see someone I know.

Now I’m wiped out because I put in all the new plants plus another I bought last Sunday. It may not sound much, but I had to dig out some tough stuff first and I also tipped two sacks of home made leaf mould on the beds and dug it in to give the new treasures a better start. Phew, I deserve to loll about listening to the cricket.