It has been a warm, cloudy day with the occasional light drop of rain. The sea has been calm and I find the gentle blues of the view quite calming too.
The only diy I did today was to repair the missing end of the garage doorframe with the resin filler. I stayed away from the garage aka workshop as Peter has begun planing down an old scaffolding plank to make shelves for the sitting room. Instead I carried on with the general tidy up of the back garden. I had toyed with the idea of leaving the aquilegias and linaria that had sprung up around the young fruit bushes but then I remembered my plan to fetch up seaweed from the beach to act as a top dressing for the poor soil. I shall put a load on the salad bed too as it's supposed to deter slugs and snails. I'll have to wait for the storms to throw up a decent amount of seaweed first. I saved some of the aquilegias by moving them into a raised bed and a few foxgloves went down to the front garden. I also cleared the space where I shall try and make a perspex cold frame to keep any frost off the more tender plants in pots. I had a number of potted seedlings and cuttings that for some reason the birds keep knocking over, maybe to get at the worms that gather underneath. Instead I sat the pots in empty plastic troughs. Then I went out and gathered wallflower seedlings from out in the street. There are a number of wallflower plants growing by the road that put on a good show each spring. I've been told they originally came from this garden so I've rescued and potted up a handful of the many seedlings growing in the gutter to eventually plant in the front garden. ('Some' is such a useful word but maybe seven times in one paragraph is too much so will change change some of the 'some's. Can you spot where?)
To amuse myself I photographed anything red in the front garden and here are a few of the photos.
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