Hens and Chickens?

Today we went for Plan C! Picnic no fun in damp conditions and forecast of more rain, coffee and cake in a garden centre whilst attractive to me not really my friends style! So I offered lunch at mine! FD had a London friend staying with a mutual friend as she was doing a talk on kefir at the festival having written a book about it after having health difficulties which it remedied! Today was the only chance of seeing her so Plan C was better all round!
I zoomed off to Waitrose to get some bits I needed and some pies and quiches to go with the potatoes from my plot, and the big bowl of beans I'd picked from the allotment in my morning opening of the hens! FD arrived back just as I pulled up to my house so she helped me in with the bags and as I started peeling potatoes and trimming beans she gave the kitchen floor a hoover! Party Girl and The Angel arrived in the middle of all this! We had a good lunch with my courgette cake for pudding! Another step forward for me in my re-socialisation and coping with 3 friends in my living space!
They all left and I had a snooze from which FD woke me - I'd invited her to dinner on her last night in the UK. I anxiously watched the grey sky and at 7 pm there were patches of blue! By the time I left for the allotment the patches were getting smaller and dark clouds were forming on the allotment. Ever hopeful I set my camera up on the tripod in the poly tunnel! There was one patch of blue sky just where the moon would appear from the treeline - but come 8.50 the clouds finally obscured that too! What a disappointment!  So it's my poppies against the cloud obscured sky! Actually not just any poppies - these are  Hens and Chicken poppies! An heirloom poppy, an ancient form from which poppies have been cultivated, that has lots of mini seed pods around the main centre pod - looking like a hen sitting amongst her chicks!
Home for a final nightcap of Amarula with FD then early night - she has the ferry crossing tomorrow and I have Port Eliot!