Physic Garden, Blackthorn Trust

The Blackthorn Trust featured on Gardeners’ World last week in their programme showing how gardening can have positive effects on mental and physical wellbeing.

The Trust is in Maidstone and we’ve been there a few times earlier in the year for a coffee while Doreen has been at the hospital for her memory treatment. They do some interesting therapies there based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, treating the whole person, not just the symptoms.

Instead of the gym which is our usual Friday morning activity we went for a walk alongside the Medway and up to the Trust for a coffee and to visit the Physic garden featured in the programme.

Back to more usual stuff in the afternoon with a trip to the allotment where Susan picked various produce while I got the brush out and painted the shed. Were rather hoping that there will not be another fire. That’s what happens two years ago when I finally got around to painting our previous shed. It was burned down three weeks later.

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