Driving home this afternoon we had to wait for a cat to move off the road. It was there long enough for me to get my camera out and take the photo as it was very slowly walking up the middle of the road. It eventually stepped up onto the pavement and jumped up onto the wall.

We harvested our first two courgettes today (should have taken a photo!) and made them into a delicious Creamy Courgette and Bacon Pasta, a BBC Good Food recipe, a real success.

Today’s poem, in this time of flowering roses, amuses me. It’s by Dorothy Parker who had such a delightfully wry sense of humour.