Barrowing compost

This is one barrowload of the third share of 960 litres of unprocessed (ie peat free) spent mushroom compost which was delivered to my neighbour this morning. She, another neighbour and I have now moved it from her front garden ready to spread on the flower and vegetable beds. Actually I can't do much till autumn now because I want to spread it on the deep borders which are currently chock full of plants. Once they die back I can shift the compost. My two neighbours divided the huge pile into three which was very kind of them.  I was in Edinburgh. 

I'd gone through this morning to have coffee with Young M. Young M is the daughter of my late mum's late friend, also M. Mum and M were real buddies. Young M lives in London but spends a good bit of time back in Edinburgh. It's always good to see her. 

We met at the City Art Centre because I wanted to see an exhibition there. I loved some of the exhibits (a beautiful photograph of Hoy, a gorgeous landscape of Tiree and an Elizabeth Blackadder still life) but I failed to detect an overall theme. M felt the same so it wasn't just me. 

If you don't know what 1/3 of 960 litres of compost looks like I can tell you that it's a lot.