Friday.

Had something of a freak rainstorm at about half past one this afternoon, and in about ten minutes the lower part of our garden was flooded.

We have recently given our sink garden to an old friend of ours, Audrey, who designed our small garden area for us a few  years ago. She is approaching her 90th and although still a keen gardener finds it increasingly difficult. Our old stone sink is mounted on short collumns so would be about waist high for her, and should help . Rather at Audrey's insistence we are keeping the miniature yew tree that I've been 'bonsai-ing' for around ten years, and which has lived in the old stone sink garden for the last two or three of them,  and Audrey also insisted on buying me a suitable container for it in exchange for the sink garden; so this afternoon we drove over to a small (in every sense) nursery near us, which sells only bonsais and associated goodies. We photographed the  above and below trees there. They  are both just under two feet tall.

Drove home, changed into me gardening scruff, and rehoused the mini yew.

Ann's just gone up the wooden hill, so I must go and join her in Bedfordshire.
Good night All.