Monday.

Above is a photo of the Black Forest clock I mentioned about a fortnight ago. It is now going well and keeping good time. It strikes the hour on a rather 'dingy' bell. It was made about 1840 in (as the name suggests) the Black Forest area of Germany, but very much with the English market in mind, as it is a quite conscious copy of an English regency rosewood wall clock.

The garden is still giving us a surprising amount of colour, as evidenced in the below pictures. The bottom is of one of our two hibiscus shrubs. Ann was given them as pot plants a year or two ago, and when they'd done flowering she planted them out. Rather to our surprise they've proved quite hardy, and are giving us a mass of late flowers. The white rose above them gives a lovely scent, especially when the sun is on it.