This evening, the BBC's Countryfile is promising to show the removal of the sails from the windmill. I shall be interested to see that.

Nice things continue to flourish. Yellow Loosestrife. My Mother had a clump in her little back yard garden, and it pleased her as it did me. It  is a very accomodating plant - it just comes up every year and flowers, needing no real attention.  I was delighted, in our first season in this house, that there was a well established dollop of colour in that fairly shady corner. Smells nice too.

There was no way I could have shown the breadth of the smile OH was wearing when he came home from walking the dog this morning. He had heard, and seen, a pair of Turtle Doves!!!! So we may have a huge number of Eastern Europeans living and working here, but it would appear that we don't have any Maltese.