I have been positively woeful in keeping up this blog, and if you’re suspecting that the attention I’ve been applying here is a reflection of the attention I have been giving to the allotment, you might well be right. But, hey, you’re not my mother, so I won’t go into long explanation as to why. Instead I’ll post some horticulturally-related photos.

These three photos were taken today at one of the gardens taking place in the National Gardens Scheme.

We haven’t been totally neglectful of our plot and a few weeks ago we put up some guttering on our shed.

We haven’t yet connected it to a water butt, which of course is the whole point, so that’s definitely the next job in relation to the shed.

For my birthday, which falls at the end of May, we revisited Standen House, a National Trust property near East Grinstead in W. Sussex. Compared to our last visit, when it was alternately snowing, hailing and sunny, we had very fine weather and Jenny did not fall over once.

Their kitchen garden was looking well-tended.

I’m going to go back often and pretend it’s mine.