The mystery of the plants was solved once John got home - it was his payment for helping someone to fix their ride on lawnmower. Excellent! This afternoon I planted 9 of the tomato plants and six of the lettuces where the boy cats live. They may or may not survive - we know that deer can't get into that bit of the land, but I've seen some monstrously huge snails there, and they will need regular watering if the dry weather continues. Fergus worried that I was overdoing it this afternoon, so pinned me down for a while.
It was very good of him to notice that I needed a bit of TLC. I don't know what it was that caused it, but I woke this morning with a thumper of a headache, and none of the usual things would shift it - not tea, not rinsing my hair under the shower, not even ibuprofen worked its usual magic. So I missed out on going to the market this morning - I just could not face it. I'm OK now but it took a while. But then, it is day 37 of lockdown...
In other news, we had a visitor to the garden yesterday - we all kept a couple of metres apart, but for those living on their own, and who don't want to sit in front of the TV all the time, and who aren't much into reading, it's getting tough. So we sat outside at a good distance apart and caught up after not having seen each other for about 40 days. It certainly seemed to perk her up and it was nice to have a change of conversation too, and all in French!!
The first of the "red" irises is out - this one is at the front of the house in the courtyard and tends to get munched by snails so it is good to have a relatively perfect flower. The ones in the back garden aren't flowering yet, and are generally a bit more lush.
The wind from the east has dropped again, and the rain has stopped, so Nibbles has returned to her fine weather perch, ensuring that nothing and no one could get in the bath window if it was open. I'm sure we all feel safer for that.
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