Mainly Dry.

This morning it was grey, damp and cold. As it wasn't actually raining I got to work in the garden and soon I was more than warm enough.  

I am quite pleased in that I achieved all I set out to do today; finished digging the strip down by the side, cut down a hawthorn branch/trunk that was leaning into the garden and  started planting up. While I was assiduously sawing away at the tree I could hear my neighbour doing much the same with his chain saw. I did harbour a fantasy of him coming along and offering to cut down the big willow tree branch for me. No such luck, tomorrow I will start by seeing if I can get the roof ladder in position. 

As ever a robin supervised my gardening watching to see if I turned up any tasty worms. Today the plants that I moved were ones that had outgrown their space at the end of the hedge. There was a big clump of something that has white flowers, about half of a yellow flower with big soft leaves and kerria which has bright yellow pom-poms in spring. I also found a clump of day lilies which I moved. They were really hard to dig out with their deep tubers.

We had some sun in the afternoon. I had finished my gardening and after changing out of my grubby gardening clothes I stepped outside to take some photos only to find it was raining. Good for all those transplanted plants. After a much needed shower I baked some chocolate muffins carefully following a recipe. With only 2 tablespoons of sugar I don't think they are quite sweet enough so next time I'll double the sugar. The muffins are for Peter's work tomorrow. As I'm practicing for the wedding I made chocolate ganache for the first time. The ganache was okay though I need to work on my presentation but when I whipped half of it to make frosting, as suggested by the recipe it was too soft to hold a shape. Perhaps I should have left it to cool a bit longer.