Last man standing

The Traveller returns late tonight after having been away for a week. I took the opportunity of his absence to change his bed linen and do a bit of spring cleaning, including spraying his carpet with moth killer spray. It all looks clean and tidy to welcome him home, but I am under no illusions that it will stay that way …

I’m having to make sure that I’m keeping completely up to date with our washing and ironing at the moment because, not only will The Traveller bring home a week’s worth of washing, but Son #2 has just brought a load of clothes for me to wash while he is without a kitchen and has no laundry facilities. The building work is going well, but the girls have decided to stay in Poland for a further week because the dust levels are huge, and our youngest granddaughter suffers from eczema and various allergies.

Smithers has spent the day making a batch of granola and then two large shepherd's pies, one for us for the next day or two and the other for the freezer for the kitchen-less family.

My trip round the garden for a blip didn’t produce anything much worth blipping, mainly because it was so windy and it was hard to get a sharp shot, so I decided to blip this hepatica again because it is the last flower left. My new hepatica plants have flowered since 11th February, so that’s pretty good going.