Tracery

Owing to illness the friends we were expecting for the afternoon did not come so we found ourselves with a free day. No preparation of food in the morning and free afternoon to ourselves. Nature abhors a vaccum though and before I knew it I was outside in the garden continuing to paint the fence panels and gate.

Fortunately it was a lovely day. After all those days of lowering cloud the sun came out and it was quite warm in the sheltered back garden. Almost all the panels are painted now - two to do facing the front garden and a couple of sections of a panel where the fence is mostly behind trees.

Susan was busy too, transplanting her flower seedlings then chopping back ivy from next door's exuberant supplies and generally tidying up. The more you do the more you find to do. Next up is to dig up the raspberry canes and take those to the allotment so that we can mark out the space for a wildlife pond.

It may have been sunny but there remained a cold wind so there was little point in going to the allotment. It is about time the potatoes should be going in. We were planning to plant them this week, but conditions aren't right. Looks like it'll be early April again.

This evening's walk was around the golf course and the Woodland Trust. As the nights get lighter then the golf course route becomes a choice. Clocks go forward on Saturday, so spring should follow. Ha ha!