Flowers and gravel

Today after some rather strong rain we went down to help the Biodiversity society spread 10 tonnes of hoggin (a man-made form of self-binging gravel, made my mixing gravel, sand and clay). Once it was all spread out, a tamper was run over the surface, and we topped up any hollows and raked out any high spots. It should last another 10 years now!

After that was done I took a few pictures, the scabious here being an example of the last of the wild flowers in the meadow around the hardstanding. The new surface is one of the extras, and there is a seed head of some sorts too.

In the evening we went to friends for dinner, which was nice, and we even managed to walk there and back in the dry, which is pretty good that Storm Brian was dumping plenty of rain on the village most of the day!