MEET NIGELLA

This one isn't quite as "in your face" as the Nigella we watch on our television screens.

I stayed in bed for most of the morning - well there wasn't much to get up for on a cold, wet and windy morning - and of course, being retired, if I want to do that, I can!  So I had my shower, went down and made my breakfast and took it back to bed.

I had some lovely conversations on Whatsapp with a friend on the other side of the world, another with a friend who is on holiday in Spain, and yet another with a friend in America - so a good morning for me.

I am going out to meet a friend for coffee this afternoon, but decided I would go out and have a look round the garden first and spotted this beautiful Nigella or Love in a Mist, as it is commonly called.  

Once again, since I started blipping, I have looked much more closely at flowers and plants and this one is a beauty. 

The gardens, and especially my poppies, are taking quite a battering at the moment, with the heavy rain and high winds, but Mr. HCB, my live-in weatherman, assures me that tomorrow and towards the weekend will get better and we will get more sunshine.  I just hope he's right.

Flowers don't worry 
about how they're going to bloom. 
They just open up 
and turn toward the light 
and that makes them beautiful. 
Jim Carrey