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Monday, 28 April 2025

A Warm Day.

The day began by being somewhat hazy but gradually blue skies appeared with interesting cloud formations. In Mach it felt like a summer's day while here on the coast it was a few degrees cooler but still very pleasant.
As mentioned we went to Mach this morning to meet up with our friends to work on our Welsh. We went through our homework then looked at our coursework for this week and probably the next as well. Afterwards I had my usual stroll around the charity shops, found nothing and bought some milk in the Co-Op. 
While Peter went off to play pool I had an afternoon working in the garden. My first job was to sort out the water butts for the front garden. When the builders did the rendering they had to move the water butt by the terrace which included disconnecting the hose at the outlet tap. Then they'd put the water butt too far back so I couldn't access the outlet tap to try and put the hose back on. Instead I had to empty out the water butt into the street after which I was able to take the water butt round to the back of the house and give the inside a thorough scrub. To make things easier I fitted a short length of hose pipe to the outlet tap and then joined that to the original hose which leads down to the front garden. ( Hot water was useful for softening up the plastic hose.) Once the water butt was back in place I fitted a tap to the much larger water butt in the front garden which fortunately is at a lower level than the first water butt. All I had to do then was find the hose from the higher water butt which originally I had run under the long hedge, cut it shorter and feed it into the top of the large water butt. Now it just needs to rain and then I can use that water for the pots down in the front garden.

I finished off by fishing out blanket weed from my tiny pond. A (baby's) bottle brush is the perfect tool for that. I came across a few of the water snails which I carefully returned to the water but I expect I'll have to keep on scooping out the blanket weeds until the snail population expands.
A lot of the latest flowers in the front garden are purple/blue including the dwarf camassia I bought at the plant fair last year.



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