A much less frustrating day today, mostly spent wandering around Highgate Cemetery and Kenwood House with Derya and Deniz. I was rather pleased with how much I managed to walk without setting the knee off - I suspect I just notice it more when I'm alone. I visited Highgate Cemetery last year, but in May, and it was surprising how different the ( Read more... )

Checking on my planting work from yesterday, I was rather pleased to find, not only that my lemon verbena, plumbago and myrtle plants had survived the winter after all, as had some osteospermums and pelargoniums, but also that the kangaroo apple I grew the year before last has seeded itself, as has a rather nice little campanula. Since this ( Read more... )