African beauty

Rather a dull start to the day - we did discuss going out somewhere, but the weather wasn’t very promising. A usual visit to the pier for fish and then to the library. I’d just finished Charley Boorman’s ‘By Any Means’, in which he describes his journey from Ireland to Australia, and was hoping to find the next one where he travels from Australia to Japan, but the library didn’t have it and will try to find it for me.
 
After lunch I chopped up the remaining prunings from the hedge and drove down to the dump - the last time for a while I hope. I had to wait a while as one of the skips was being moved, but I eventually got in and a kind fellow dumper helped me tip the bulk bag into the skip.
 
Halfway through the afternoon the sun came out and the sky turned blue, so we got the chairs out, put the kettle on and looked forward to a relaxing time out on the deck. It was, for about 10 minutes, then the clouds came over and the wind sprang up. Typical!
 
Did some work in the greenhouse, mainly potting up, and looking for a subject for my Blip decided on this cute little begonia. I’d grown Begonia sutherlandii many times in the past, but couldn’t bring everything with me when I retired! A friend promised me a plant and I collected it a couple of weeks ago. A small species, which being tuberous dies back in the winter, but regrows rapidly in the spring. I was going to comment that it comes from south-east Africa, but after Googling it I thought I should mention everything! “It’s native to forested mountain slopes in south-eastern Africa from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa north through Lesotho, Eswatini, and eastern Zimbabwe to Tanzania.” News to me too!