Wild garlic

Can I just start by saying how glad I am we've had a sunny bank holiday, and how annoyed I am that our cat has brought in a live rat? Indie and the rat are now holed up in the living room together. I think the rat is winning. There are many places it can hide. Tomorrow we will borrow a trap, and ask the council pest controller's advice. Just when we'd got rid of the mice....

V and I went up to Hawkwood college, near here, for a mayday celebration. All the workshops we wanted to attend were fully booked, but we did some leaf-art, I did some networking and bought some soap, then we had a Greek takeaway lunch. 

After a few hours, it  was still very crowded, so we drove up to Rodborough common for the first ice cream of the year on the common. There's an ice cream factory up there, bizarrely, so it's a Stroud tradition. I had coconut in a gf cone. We admired the cowslips. We drove back (with the handbrake on, yikes !) by a country route, and she dropped me off and had tea, then left just before my next guest, H, arrived. 

H and I went for a long walk over the hills and far away, and didn't get rained on much. H used to live in Stroud, but now lives in Wales, so it was a good memory walk for her. My pleasure was interrupted by a call from CS about 'the rodent' brought in, but as I have already said, we haven't caught it yet. 

A farcical scene ensued earlier in the evening when CS decided to get some gardening gloves and an odd selection of things from the cabin so that  he could have a go at containing it, but at that moment the heavens opened and a thunderstorm began clattering overhead, so he had to dress up in waterproofs just to dash twenty yards. 

Back to work tomorrow. I must finish part six of Dopesick first, on BBC iPlayer, about the Oxycontin and Sackler family scandal in the US..I am as absorbed in it as much as I was when it first aired on Disney + in 2021.