I bought a tank..

There’s a canny little brocante shop by a local farm shop and in my eternal quest for a vintage water butt I found a halfway-there version with this old galvanised tank.  It sits brilliantly in a dark corner where nothing much grows (except Spanish bluebells in spring) and having it there will cut my watering in the pots right down.   Very exciting purchase! 

We had a blissful home day with HB staying.  Decided to cook out of recipes in the papers and made a very successful pea, bean and ham salad for lunch followed by not so successful Ottolenghi lamb skewers for dinner. Should have barbecued them i think. 

Walked in the wood in the early evening - a very humid day at times almost tropical when it warmed up.  Well, the UK version of.