First flower...

...on the magnolia stellata.

Accompanied MrM to the recycling centre this morning (exciting, eh?!) with several more bags full of garden waste. Lost count of how many huge bagfuls (or should it be bagsful?) we've taken over the last few weeks. Then on to the hardware shop in Meltham to buy a drill bit, which MrM used this afternoon to put trellis on to the front of the house, for the climbing roses. Spent an hour or so in the garden after that, until the rain started yet again.