Sunny.

Bright and sunny all day long, hooray.

Tempted as I was to spend the whole day digging I began by spending a couple of hours at the zoo. (And forgot to take my camera or even my phone.) There I pruned the nine mature buddleia bushes in various rabbit/guinea pig enclosures. I had pruned them last year so there wasn't anything that my loppers couldn't cut through. In fact some of them were pruned less than last year when I had cut them all back to grow into bushes 5-6 ft high which makes the yearly pruning easy for me. However I had noticed that some of those bushes blocked visitors' view of the animals inside the enclosures so this year I pruned higher up so that those buddleia will be more like small trees.

Leaving the zoo I stopped to say hello to somebody I know who was out walking a friend's dog and gave her and the dog a lift home as she was running late. It was a good time to dig up a bit of one of her hardy geraniums, Anne Folkhard, which has magenta flowers with a dark purple centre. I had not managed to bring some with me amongst the plants I brought from Dingles so when I spotted it last year in her garden she kindly said I could have some when I had a suitable spot to plant it.

I still managed to fit in a few hours trench digging with blackbird and robins in attendance. I wonder if they think I am purely there to dig up worms for them or if they think the roots I put in my bucket are worms I'm going to have for myself. I know birds don't really think that way but it amuses me to ponder such thoughts.

I finished off with going to choir in the evening. It's a clear cold night with the stars shining brightly above.