Sunshine.

Quite mild today and with more gaps in the clouds came some welcome sunshine. It had rained much earlier on and now as evening approaches the rain is back in earnest.

Yesterday's digging at the zoo did not do my back any good at all, I struggled at Pilates and had to ease off on some of the exercises. That said I did go out to do some tidying in the garden this afternoon. I just could not resist the good weather. Like yesterday I was down on my hands and knees but instead of weeds I was picking up stray leaves and stalks from the shingle garden. However pretty the old hydrangea petals are with their lacework of sandy coloured veins if left they and the other leaves would soon turn into a dark mess spoiling the restful look of the shingle garden. So far it looks as if everything has made it through the winter though of course spring is still far off. One sign of things to come are all the leaves of the spring bulbs shooting up everywhere. Last year I did some replanting of bulbs that came from the original garden and hopefully soon there will be swathes of bluebells, grape hyacinth, snowdrops, crocuses, star flowers and daffodils. Today I cut down the old crocosmia leaves that were covering the daffodil shoots in the raised beds. I also gave the hydrangea that had grown over one of the beds, a hard trim to let more light through to the plants underneath. That's a few more bags ready to go to the dump.