Carpet of Snowdrops

After quite a rough night again, and feeling very tearful, I made the effort and got out today by bus, train and bus to the Oxford Botanical Gardens :)

I can't make my mind up whether to blip the lovely carpet of snowdrops or the smaller group in :

extra 1 - snowdrops
extra 2 - crocuses (or irises?)
extra 3 - acconite - I think
extra 4 - robin
extra 5 - blackbird

(the only drawback was a horrid train journey - due to before 10am - a load of drunk young men, carrying alcohol and already full of it , verbal and noisy and rude :(  Several of us complained to the train manager - and all that was said was 'oh its match day'!)  Why should that ruin other people's days.  I was so glad to get off that train :()

Anyway, I knew roughly where I was going, but asked a friendly bus driver, and he was going that way - and let me know when to get off (that made up for the unpleasantness of the train journey) :)

I spent a good couple of hours wandering around and over 150 photos were taken, but I love that the robin followed me around, and there was a pair of blackbirds too) :)  

But it did make me think of Mum as she, like me loved gardens, flowers and birds... I did get a bit tearful and melancholy.

After the gardens, I walked back up the high street to Pizza Express.  Its a very long time since going to a restaurant by myself (and I felt so lonely in among all the families there - it doesn't normally bother me, as I take my kindle and read)....

Then I walked back to the station, and had a lovely quiet journey back to Reading.  Home now, feeling tired, sore and have really bad toothache again, but glad that I've made it out!

And RELAX!