Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby

Sorry, my title got stuck in my head after listening over breakfast to the Kaiser Chiefs on Radio 2 this Sunday morning.

After that, I was a bit unsure if gardening all day was even allowed,given the current lockdown and limitations. Despite all that, it seemed pretty harmless, so I went for it.

My task today had been put off for many years. Got a 101 of jobs like all of us that I had been avoiding, so what better now with all this time to spare?

So it was the task was set: Clearing some really well-entrenched ivy in the plant bed beneath our old Forsythia hedge. As it happened, it took me all afternoon just to clear 3 square meters.

Lots of ‘finds’ to report though - even if not exactly the saxon hoard quality seen in my i-player re-runs of the brilliant BBC series Detectorists I have become rather besotted with, and have binge watched (again) recently.

Happy to report that my total ‘finds’ were a small ball that Jay had lost about 25 years ago and was still inflated; Second was a ‘lucky’ QEII penny also from the 90’s; and third was what I thought at first was a hard, fossilised jelly bean, but turned out to be a small but really beautiful red glass pebble.

Not quite a hoard ruby, but I promised MrsB I would get it made into a pendant. Its her birthday coming up soon. That girl gets spoilt rotten.

Our love and best wishes to everyone out there in these really difficult times xx.