Burton Joyce Day - Lovely Weather

I've decided against further Wimpole Hall pictures. Not there are any really. I tried a panorama but it was not good. In retrospect we maybe should have headed for the Home Farm which is home to several rare breeds but the brochure made clear that it was designed to be of interest to children and we weren't in the mood.

The first picture is another of my dutch hollyhock family - Curt van de Hollyhock - and unfortunately my little Casio hasn't done justic to the red. As you can see the greens are fine; it just doesn't seem to get on with reds. The Artichoke has won the race between flowering and us moving! At the present rate we shall probably see the Michaelmas Daisies.

Ah well - thanks for the additional cliches which were suggested. But all things being equal, six of one and half a dozen of the other etc..etc.. . we might be lucky yet!

Another super day, blue sky, breeze and I have only just noticed that on my weather-station there is a 'comfort index' reading, which has been previously mentioned; as against straightforward 'humidity'. All I need to understand now is what it means? The reading at the moment is 43% and as Google shows Nottingham Humidity as 39% the figures probably refer to different things.

Even after all her recent grannying commitments Y still managed Burton Joyce today and when I collected her she was playing a mean game of football. She was allowed to be France while Hannah was Italy and Y lost 6 - 4. A fair result. Millicent can now just manage to kick the ball, but isn't quite striker material just yet. Miles was thrilled with his Telegraph 'dinosaur' poster and decided to watch a video instead of football, until right at the very end. I did a ham salad for main meal and Bungus will be pleased to learn that I used Maris Peer. They were evenly small, looked the most attractive and they were fine. Mind you, scraping, and a butter and mixed herb sauce did them no harm at all.

Rest Day tomorrow......