James Galway rose

This climbing rose is doing brilliantly well this year. It is against a high stone wall and I look at it from my kitchen window (upstairs). It is a delight.

I know that I have blipped it previously, e.g. 2020 and 2021

I love walking around the garden and welcoming old friends as they come into flower yet again.

Today has been a rest day. I did a couple of loads of washing and some ironing.

I read another chapter of Uncivilised  by Subhadra Das. This one was Your Country needs you and is about issues of colour and British citizenship. I found it upsetting to realise just how hard it is for anyone of colour to be accepted as British. Then I listened to David Olusoga speaking on the podcast "Radicals in Conversations" "Staying Power" by Pluto Press.

The book and the podcast complement each other so I recommend them to you.