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Wooden Heart, Granny’s Bonnets and A Surprise
I’ve been trying to catch a shot of the heart shape on a fallen tree ever since Storm Goretti and today, as we drove past, I just about managed it, albeit a bit fuzzy.
My Suffragette Garden has purple and white Granny’s Bonnets beginning to flower.
In February, when the Tête à Tête were flowering, we found a small bag of bulbs we had missed in the October planting. We popped them in a pot anyway and now, in May, they are blooming.
And today we fondly remember Ti on her birthday.
Squirrel, Blue Tit and Earrings
Our squirrel visitor is enjoying the fat balls we have put out for the little birds. Here, it just posed for the photo!
We hope the Blue Tits will make our box their home but they don’t seem to have decided properly yet.
I bought some lovely colourful new earrings at the market yesterday, made by a local maker, Chilli-G by the sea.
Muguet, Happiness Calendar and Garden Birds
May 1st is La Fête du Muguet in France and our dear friend Kath, to whom this blog is dedicated, always gave me a bunch of Lily-of-the-Valley or, if they were away in their house in Meysaac, a card would arrive on the day. The flowers symbolise happiness and good luck and I grow them in the garden in memory of my lovely friend.
Here is the Meaningful May calendar of happiness.
It’s a lovely time of year for bird song. Here is what we heard in a 10 minute recording. 
Happy Beltane to you all.
Bluebells, Clematis and A Song
Driving to choir this morning was a blur of beautiful blueness as the hedgerows along the way are thick with bluebells. I couldn’t take a photo (as I was driving) but here are a few of the lovely flowers from our garden.
Our Clematis Montana is wonderful this Spring having been cut almost to the ground two years ago.
We sang this beautiful song, Keep You in Peace, at choir today, rehearsing for singing at the funeral next week of our very dear friend and much loved member of our choir. Thanks to S for the video.
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Goldfinch, Pigeon and A Poem
We have a charm of Goldfinches in the garden, taking turns at the feeder. Sometimes, when the feeders are full, there are a dozen at once.
There are two regular courting pigeons in the garden. One had just flown off as I took my photo. 
Today’s poem in the book, “A Poet for Every Day of the Year” made me think about our dear friend John who loved cricket, so this poem, ‘The Catch’ by Simon Armitage is here in John’s memory today.
Welly Dog, Bullfinch and A Dunnock
Welly Dog spent the afternoon on the bench today while the lawn was mown. He seemed quite happy up there with the blue flowers mentioned yesterday, forget-me-nots under the bench and bluebells in the foreground.
We had lots of bird visitors on this beautiful Spring day, among them the Bullfinch at the feeder and a Dunnock, like a sparrow but with pink legs, perched at the top of the old pan stand. 
Camassia, Bluebells and Shallots
Some time ago the garden was full of yellow, now it’s full of blue and white. There are Camassia, Bluebells and lots of Forget-me-nots and the white blossom of the Choisya Ternata and the slightly pink tinged whites of apple blossom.
Just look at the first row sown and the others are starting. We love shallots even more than onions.
