101 varieties

There may be, for all we know, but there are three different forms of buttercup adorning the old field at the moment. We like these ones with their open petals a lot, although we'd rather see them in a country verge than here.

Today promised temperatures of over 20C. It took a while but got there eventually and we had to change into shorts! We were doing a bit more field weeding, returning our attention to the Chestnut garden and tackling the usual culprits, including some seriously large bramble roots - perhaps we should blip them, just for the record!