Infinite Sun

That's the only frog who's visited our pond this year - he's from Jamie's dad, so nice to have him on our plot.

What an amazing Easter weekend - yesterday we saw some of the canoeists in the Devizes to Westminster race and Hungerford was nicely crowded. But today was a plot day. We were on a mission to clear Plot46A...

Eurgh, what a mess of chickweed, deadnettle, fumitory and various leftover veg from last year.

With a lot of this...

We managed to convert it to this...

Aah, that's better. And now it's covered in weed suppressant fabric, so we're good neighbours again!

Meanwhile, our poor marigolds in the polytunnel couldn't survive the 39.9° temperature - I really hope they recover!

When we arrived at the site someone had left some seedlings in the polytunnel for us. Thinking they were Antirrhinum (Snap dragon) from Ivan I dutifully plotted them on into individual pots. Only later did I discover that they were in fact a mix of Rocket and Pak Choi from Malcolm - duh, I'm blaming the heat!

We were pleased to see that the weather has encouraged the grassed communal area to grow. Hopefully the grass will overcome the weeds which are also very happy.

Kula Shaker provide the great song and we're expecting another amazing sunny day tomorrow - hooray!

Sad

We had a plan for yesterday - to sow the grass seed we bought a couple of weeks ago. The area was cleared by the Work Party last month so we only had to clear the bigger stones initially and rake the path a bit flatter - it was a long path...

We've had a lot of rain over the last week, most of it in one day, but yesterday was dry and not too cold.

And then we went back the other way, flattening it down a bit and then a quick rake to make the soil a bit better for taking the seed.

Raking is hard work on the back and shoulders.

I sowed the seeds and Jamie followed behind with a watering can to stop them from blowing away.

Taa-daa - finished! And that was when we decided to do the ~4-pole area around the toilet. It's got Horsetail so we hope that regular mowing of grass will keep it contained. Roger and his family have the plot next to the path and they're going to put flowers in the sunken wooden troughs all round the edge - won't that look lovely!

Now we just need some warm sunny days and wet nights so that the seed germinates and can take a hold before the weeds do!

The blog title is a small memorial for Jamie's Dad, who sadly died last week. Very sad. Here he is with Jamie, a long time ago.

The song is by Maroon 5.