It is a widely accepted truth that cats love boxes - there are lovely films of panthers and cheetahs and tigers all unable to resist the lure of the delicate rectangular shape, with or without an obvious entrance. Look what we managed to trap yesterday in a cardboard box! Our own little panther.
This morning was cloudy and cool so I took advantage to go and see the boys in the country and also plant the first of the potatoes (yes, I know, we are late, but that's just the way it is). Cats also like well raked soil, freshly turned soil and weed suppressant mat. It took a while to remove the roots and stones from this newly cultivated piece of land. A similar amount of time to remove all the cat poo that accumulated in the 3 days since it was rotavated, and mere seconds for cats to appear on the weed suppressing mat once it was on the ground. There are 20 seed potatoes under that lot somewhere!
I think the broad beans may be not so far off a first picking!
Finally, I am always amazed at the resilience of well established plants, and this one is my particular favourite. Perhaps 12 years ago we had a small bed here, where now there is just pavement. We also had the wall repointed which is I think when the little bed started to disappear, before being totally covered when the new pavement was put in place. Somehow this lovely campanula manages to survive and each spring produces this wonderful ball of mauve flowers which last a couple of weeks. Some years it is the only splash of colour in April, this year we have early roses and geraniums that survived the winter in flower, but this is still pretty special in my book.
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