Forgotten nymph

The new kitchen table arrived today! So now we have a real strong and sturdy old pine table befitting to a farmhouse kitchen instead of the late 50's utilitarian one with a formica top!

After lunch drove over to A's and the two of us visited the most unusual "lost" nature garden ever on the edge of the Wetlands just outside Martock. This retired farmer had decided to convert 22 acres of his land into a garden and what a garden! It was one and a half miles of twisting and turning woodland path akin to a maze - one lost one's bearings completely - passing stagnant green ponds through overgrown undergrowth and excentric planting of flowers and shrubs with the odd forgotten sculpture thrown in and many shapes and the odd bench made out of horseshoes welded neatly together. In the centre of this conglomeration was an old farmhouse with an honesty box in the porch in which to put ones money before trooping off for another hour trying to find one's way out by following the red arrows painted on the odd stone or tree trunk. We eventually caught up with the old farmer who was standing thigh deep in a fountain trying to repair the base. He hadn't realised anyone was in the garden and had turned the water off so what looked like a diving board over the largest pond was really a waterfall! Through all this tangle one occasionally had glimpses of mown lawn and swans, or Highland and Longhorn cattle in the pastures outside.

I think we earned our cup of tea back at A's!

The Linseed has been a struggle today too but our agronomist pointed out that it was probably not quite ripe yet and to take a sample over to Wessex Grain to be tested. Try with the combine harvester again in four or five days if the sun is shining and it is dry!