House Leek (Sempervivum sp. )

A day of two halves (yes pedant I know that if something is halved there are two).  First we had the service following the private cremation of our next door neighbour.  When the children were young her daughter and Katkatkat used to pop back and forwards between the gardens through a very convenient gap in the hedge.  The service was a celebration of Kath's well lived life.

That was followed by a buffet in their garden.  An ideal garden for such things large and beautiful.  It was felt this would be the sort of thing Kath would have wanted.  It was much more like a garden party with a very relaxed mingling and sharing memories.  The buffet was assembled and much of it created by what was the little girl who used to clamber through the hedge.

The blip?  Oh I almost forgot about that.  A "House Leek" of the species Sempervivum which is growing in a pot beside our door awaiting transplanting at the Lodge.