After a beautiful spring, this is turning out to be a very dismal summer!  There, I feel that writing down those words and getting them up on line is almost the only way to make sure this depressingly wet weather stops.

It doesn’t help of course that politics is also in the mix. . .

The only cheerful thing on my own horizon is the first of the massive display of Vicar Lambert roses at the bottom of my garden which have just started to bloom.  Earlier roses with bigger flowers have been casualties of the wind and rain.  Fingers crossed for the fragrant Vicar Lambert and the Kiftsgate, both of which are enormous and should never have been planted in my tiny garden but I love them!