Drop

We went and bought some snowdrops and primulas today, and surveyed what the nursery also had available for future trips.  It's not going to be trivial to get a garden this size looking good and balanced.  As it is the planting today looked rather a drop in the ocean, but nice to get some things of ours in.

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Leaded-glass restorers arrived today to fix the broken panes in the entrance hall.  Only a small percentage were broken but it does look disproportionately better without them.

Next on their list (for when it's warmer) is to extract and restore the two stained-glass panels from the office (which are in a rather sorry state). When working in the basement recently I'd spotted the corner of a third hidden behind discarded doors. I'd assumed it was plain but fighting my way to it I found it was an impressive coat of arms.  Heaven knows what it was doing there. Assuming we'll get that one restored too.

Should manage it as a future blip just as soon as blipping steps back from emergency mode.

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Went out to a B&B-owners networking meal tonight.  Friendly bunch.