Weeding and reading

Gardening clothes on this morning - I'd promised myself a day in the garden, or should I say, among my plants, as the forecast was good. When I emerged after my usual late breakfast I couldn't believe my eyes - it was beginning to rain, albeit just a few speckles in the air! It didn't last, so I went out and got on with clearing weeds from the joints in the concrete by the end of the house, weeding pots, tidying up all the pots of narcissi and generally making things look better. 

The mesembryanthemums that I'd planted down at the bottom of the drive to hang over the retaining wall have all been chewed off!  Just when they were beginning to flower! It must be the deer. I've had to pot them and bring them up to a safer place!

I sat out on the deck for a tea break with a book, but it was just too hot, so I had to find a better place - halfway down the garden steps where there's some light shade. I enjoyed a cool peppermint milk shake and Michael Munn's "David Niven", said to be the first biography of the man which tells the truth. His own books, and various other biographies, are apparently as much fiction as fact!

I'm glad it wasn't this hot yesterday - it would have made walking slightly difficult!

Quote of the day: "I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against." - David Niven.