Temperatures yesterday were in the high 20’s. We shared doing the watering and then did very little else except lurk in the shade. Had quite a few customers, very small sales though but we’re grateful for anything right now.

There was a little bit of rain in the night which won’t have been enough to water the sales beds but might have freshened up the garden.

A visitor who went round the garden said it was ‘random and informal’, I’m still trying to work out if that was a compliment or not. He expanded by saying he was bored of some of the National Trust gardens and their formality. I feel that our garden sits easily in its surroundings, there is a blurring around the edges where the less managed bits blend into the wild areas. There’s a trend for encouraging wildlife and we do that without trying.