Unbelievable

An improbably lush growth, considering how they started.

But even more improbably, one of our honoured Blip-guests, darling pipistrelle, passed away this afternoon. It all happened so fast - DaveH was on the train down to Shrewsbury where she'd been taken to hospital, but he got the message before he even reached Carlisle. So he came back home.

This is your elegy, the grey sea grieving
This and the gulls' disconsolate reply
Beyond your hearing
Is their desolate cry.

(c) James Reeves, I think - apologies if I've misquoted him, but it's been a long time since English O-Level.

And now we have to play some Sandy Denny as loud as is legal (or possibly louder)...

Goodbye, dear Judith.