Spindle - Euonymus europaeus

Something tells me I blipped a Spindle and its fruit during last winter. The small lobed fruits are a deep pink colour and shine out of the hedge as one walks by. So called because the wood of this shrub used to be made into spindles for spinning woollen thread long before the spinning wheel was invented. It has also been used for making good quality artist's charcoal.

Our other friends from Devon who had been staying the night left us mid-morning. We wont see them again until next March as they are off touring Australasia and visiting mutual friends in Australia where L used to live. J has never been there.

The garage phoned to say the bump with the car will cost the other's insurance company £2,ooo.

In the evening a friend of N's arrived again to stay the night on his way to a meeting in Salisbury tomorrow. They went out to the pub to eat and I had a quiet evening at home.

Tim is now busy feeding cattle who have been brought in from the field and are in the new yard, and 30 weaned calves which arrived yesterday.