Gardening

I have done an enormous amount of gardening, planting out my tomatoes and chillies, sowing some more French beans, planting out sad little cauliflowers and cabbage (with tin foil strips to deter the birds). After all this I am delighted today that we have steady fine rain as the ground is so dry I had to carefully water everything and Dave has just connected up the hosepipe so we can reach the poor parched hedge. We have had very little rainfall this summer so far.