Progress

I last posted this plant, mother in law's tongue, on 29th March https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2823305363401475367
when I had just repotted it. I noticed then that it was actually flowering which is unusual and only happens when pot bound. Here it is, two months later, the flower has continued to develop but is still pretty small and insignificant. I'm not sure whether repotting it interrupted things or not. What the flower does have, if you go very close, is a very pleasant, sweet scent. I wonder if I'll ever manage to get it to flower again.
Today I had a lazy start, but that soon changed. After shopping, I made a sausage casserole by special request from Eilidh. The girls came to us overnight today, so I picked Eilidh up from school first and took her to Brownies in the park - would she wear her waterproof jacket? Would she heck as like, so she wore her fleece. Did it rain? Yes! Did I say I told you so? You bet I did!
While she was at Brownies I went to pick Isobel up from nursery, she'd had her leavers group photograph taken today. I can't believe she's off to school already.
Isobel and I then went and picked up a rather sopping but very happy Eilidh. We headed home and hit tailbacks on the Queensferry Road which were apparently down to the M8 being closed. This was at 6.30 and the queue then was right back to the roundabout at Stewart Melville's.
I doubled back and went down to Crewe Toll and up Telford Road which was very much quicker. Poor Isobel was sound asleep, we had a slightly later than usual tea and then they were more or less straight off to bed and sound asleep.
It's been a much warmer day today, still just under 20°C at 7.30pm, it's been wet though. Hopefully tomorrow will manage to be both warm and dry, which would make a nice change. I think the weather forecast is better for the next week or so anyway, the temperatures are definitely higher.
Thank you everybody for your kind words yesterday about my friends. It's just hard being so far away and dependent on others for information. Having said that, I think I knew more quickly than many who live locally to him.
Keep safe everybody, the reporting of hot spots can be rather worrying - 400 cases per 100,000, in an area that only has 4,500 people actually breaks down to a much less frightening just under 20 cases. Be careful and keep safe, but don't panic should be the message.