Old fireplace

This fireplace was taken out of our dining room some years ago and as we didn’t want to part with it we have had it propped up against the garden wall ever since.

At the weekend the nearly 90 year old widow of my old boss, who later was my  partner,  turned up needing some vet help and sadly when she had called at the surgery nobody knew her and they couldn’t help anyway. 

After I had solved her problem she wanted to see the garden and spied the fireplace without the plant in it so she told us to get something to add colour. I didn’t argue with her 50 odd years ago when she was manning the practice phone and I wasn’t going to start now ! 

She was right of course and we often do have something growing there.