Wet.

It has rained on and off all day.

The rain started as I was driving to the zoo but as I had my workman's jacket I carried on. I spent three hours weeding ignoring the rain and was able to clear three quarters of the large play area. However the corner at the back is the most overgrown so I expect it will take at least one session to clear it completely.

I took some plants (carex, stachys, thyme and pheasant grass) with me which I planted in the gravel by the wolf-dogs before I began weeding. Imagine my shock when after three hours working on my knees in the rain I saw that the grass and the large carex (it had filled a bucket) had gone! I didn't think it was any of the few visitors but none of the other volunteers or staff claimed to know anything about it. I've left a note asking that people don't 'weed' that patch of gravel as my thought is that one of the staff who had been tasked with sweeping all the paths had thought she was helping by getting rid of some 'weeds' which had grown in my absence. It did leave me feeling very disheartened.

Since there was no danger of 'harsh sunlight' today I applied the window film to the porch window. There are no numbers along this road only house names and now there is no excuse for anyone not knowing where we are. There are only ten houses but I can never remember all the house names as we usually refer to them by the people who live in them.