Part Three

Who remembers Ian Dury and the Blockheads? Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3:



Great crack.

Okay, this week is Reasons to be Cheerful!
Only a small selection and in no particular order:

The weather!


Blue skies:

Blue sky in the garden pool

Trips to inspiring gardens:

Sculpture in Burtown House gardens

The first taste of this season's loganberry jam:

The first few pots of loganberry jam cool on the windowsill

Eating outside every day:

Breakfast right here every morning ...

The poppies blooming in the garden:

Opium poppy blooms brilliantly and briefly. See here for more.

Let's bláth with Draw-hín (I know, only a couple of you are going to get that one :-)):

Trying out colours for yew bark

Fun with fishing rods (very sketchy Dierama pulcherrimum)

The thoughts of harvests to come:

Bramble/blackberry flower in Knocksink Woods

Have a good week all.