Relief

Days later and you may be wondering where I got to. I’m here, I’m here. But it was such a busy few days that I’ve barely had time to come up for air.

But here I am and hoping to get back into some sort of routine after the wonderful hiatus of a photo shoot.

Carla was great fun and so positive and very hard working. Snapping late for the sunset and even up at 630am for the morning light on the east side of the houses.

I can’t wait to see the pictures and just see the garden from her point of view. And viewfinder.

The weather was just perfect and still and even hot. (First swim of the year from our guest.) And we ate outdoors, managed to get the first few cherries off the trees, eat snow peas in our just picked salad and generally have fun.

But such a busy time. And with hayfever thrown in.

And then just as I had waved Carla farewell it was a mad dash to the supermarket and then back to the farm for a quick guest house turn around.

More guests. And with a train strike it involved a five hour round trip to pick them up from a far away station. Grrr.

So my routine isn’t quite settled.

I did manage to get the nets back on the potager which will make me sleep more easily.  And I’m planting out little seedlings like mad. I will be away for a fortnight and need them settled in.

Oh and look who has really settled in.  Artur was quite the star of the show during the shoot. He was shameless in fact!  Looking his most photogenic and winsome in the shots.  And boy did he appear in plenty of them.

Luckily Carla was a cat lover, as he kept slinking into view and plonking himself down where we were working.

Well, it’s not really working. I had to stand about doing action things like watering plants and collecting wild flowers. A far cry from proper work like weeding and hanging out of trees cutting branches, mowing and strimming and hauling logs.  But still.