Solar panels installed
Pink carpet
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Happiness Calendar, Cake and Rain
Here’s this month’s Happiness Calendar. We’ve had a happy day as the lovely young men have been installing the solar panels and appreciating the cookies. I’ve had a steroid injection in my hip which hopefully will have the desired effect.
It’s Blueberry cake for the volunteers tomorrow.
Blueberry Cake
It’s been raining so hard we have a carpet of orange pettals under the California Poppies. Happily, there are many more buds.
Bark, Foxglove and Cookies
Loving the rough pattern of the bark and the lichen.
Photo taken from moving car
I’ve baked a batch of Choc Chip Cookies today for the workmen who will be fitting the solar panels tomorrow. 
Sage, Thyme and Kit
I’m revamping my herb garden as the plants have gotten rather woody and less than perfect for cooking with. I’ll fill the gaps with some Lobelia for the summertime.
Purple sage
Creeping thyme
Our coal-house, which hasn’t seen coal in many years and has been a store shed, is now full of the kit needed by the installers of our solar panels on Monday.
Scaffolding and Buzzing
Scaffolding went up at the side of the house today in preparation for solar panels being put on our roof next week – not very beautiful but very pleasing.
All day there has been a buzzing from our Crinodendron that is full of crimson lanterns and countless bees and other pollinators. This evening I tried to capture the sound for you. You’ll need your volume turned up.
Bee, Ginger Lily and Seed Bombs Day 5
It’s good to see and hear bees busy in the garden.
We love our ginger lily which comes back year after year.
The blossom bombs are developing well. I don’t yet reconise any of the leaves.
Baby Lettuces, Colour and A Postcard
We have had to protect our new greenhouse from the extreme heat of the last few days (Camborne, our neighbouring town was the hottest in the country overnight 21.4C which is a very pleasant day time temperature but far too hot for sleeping!) and our baby lettuces are doing very nicely.
We love the colour combination here of the orange begonia, purple aquilegia and yellow poppies.
I love this:
Sunset, Cake and Seedbombs
Last night’s sunset was beautiful.
It was so hot (28C) today, too hot to work at Community Roots but I had baked a cake for the volunteers so I went along to deliver it to the few hardy (or foolhardy) folks who were there doing their thing. They were glad to have some ginger cake to look forward to!
Mary Berry’s Gingerbread Traybake
It’s only three days since I planted the seed bombs and two of them are sprouting already.
Day 3
Day 3
Boat Sink, Scarlet and Purple
In 2014 we went to a Boat Jumble and, though we had nowhere to put it, I bought a beautifully decorated boat sink. It has been in the garden ever since! A couple of days ago, I planted the seed bombs I bought in Amsterdam, in a large pot but then realised that I needed that pot for a teepee of Sweet Peas so I have moved the bombs, which are just beginning to split, into the sink.
Our Crinidendron Hookerianum (Chilean Lantern Tree.) is spectacular this year.
I love the purple iris against the red of the lanterns on said Chilean Lantern Tree.
Stedelijk Museum and Blossombs
The Stedelijk Museum was fascinating, I’d been looking forward to seeing the Karel Appel works, 
We later found a wonderful painting bursting with joy, Bal Tabarin by Jan Sluijters.
and discovered a room full of protest art work.
When in the gift shop, I found the perfect gift for Sue-next-door who looked after our place while we were away. I bought us a miniature egg box full of seed bombs too. Today, I have followed instructions and ‘planted’ them. We’ll look forward to seeing what comes up!
