Over at Mum’s again, mainly to sort out garden hoses after new taps fitted, and to install wall bracket for new TV. Additional jobs discovered on arrival included trying to fix the hoover (sorted), trying to fix the carpet sweeper (failed), and getting stuff down off high shelves and helping go through them, as part of sorting out the back lobby.
Mum in great form – up just after 1400, and when I returned from my walk I discovered her puliing up dandelions at the bottom of the lawn. A spot of sitting outside, an hour of back lobby sorting, supper around 7 and she didn’t go up until well after ten. She was clearly having a good day, but in general is, I think, much better than she was.
A good walk on the common this afternoon. As I posted on Facebook: “White dead-nettles in profusion. The bluebells are still not fully out – I think it’s about the latest I ever remember, as I think of them as an April flower! Windflowers now at their peak – glorious dancing sheets of whiteness. Ferns are starting to push through in the boggy bits, and the Giant sedge is in flower. Great Burdock leaves pushing up through the tangles of decayed bracken and dead twigs and dog’s mercury in full but inconspicuous bloom.“
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white dead-nettles 
windflowers and bluebells 
sheets of windflowers 
fern emerging 
burdock leaves 
dogs mercury 
giant sedge
