Clammy.

It was cold and clammy this morning. Later the sea mist cleared (mostly) giving a much brighter day. The remaining mist could only be seen at a distance but its cold presence could still be felt. There was enough of a breeze to dry the first batch of my furnishing fabrics which I'd washed to pre-shrink before I start making cushion covers.

While Pete took the car to have a new exhaust fitted (the brackets had fallen off by the time he got to the garage) I got on with painting the house wall with a second coat of white. 

That done I went round to tidy up the lane behind the garden. My plan was to clear away the tall weeds, rubble and broken pots leaving the ground ready for anyone to mow. I took secateurs, rake and my trusty giant screwdriver which makes a great digging and root remover tool. Not wanting to simply dump stuff on the overgrown mess further along behind someone else's garden after turning over the ground I filled three sacks with roots. A lot was bindweed which has been trying to get into my garden through the hedgehog hole. It took a few hours but now that section is level and rock free and hopefully will get mowed. I need to get some grass seed first to give it a head start because of course the bag of seed I'd been keeping got thrown out for the birds.

 

'Scuse the colour clash but this is the first time any of my nerines have flowered. Below is social garlic which has been flowering well all summer. We saw lots growing in tins, decorated feta tins I believe, in Crete but they were much smaller.