Pink Beauty

This morning, I brought my mother and her sister back to their  respective homes. (They  live a few miles apart, but both are seventy miles from my home.) They each declared  our little  holiday on the  Isle of Wight to have been a great success. I was just relieved to get them home again safely!

It was such a hot day that this afternoon, after feeding her ravenous tortoise, my mum and I sat outside in the shade, watching a red kite circling overhead,  as it took a rather keen interest in a crows'  nest. I couldn't get a good photo of the bird so my blip is of a late flowering climbing rose in my mum's garden.