One of the first poppies to flower ....

.... but it certainly won't be the last.

These are in the area alongside the fence, where the hedge was removed.  Pulling up the hedge had left an area of disturbed bare soil, and this has suited the poppies.

Slept badly because my nose was running so heavily, I kept waking needing to blow it, and with a really dry mouth due to mouth breathing.  And I've filled a wastepaper basket with tissues today.  Apart from being tired, and having such a heavy cold, I actually don't feel ill - if I didn't have a positive test to tell me otherwise, I'd just assume I'd picked up a cold.

But I haven't felt up to doing very much, and it was only the need for a blip that drove me out into the garden.